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2 Dinara - Aleksandar I
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1918-1941) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in left-facing profile, rendered in high relief with finely engraved hair and strong facial features. The circumferential Cyrillic legend encircles the portrait, reading from the lower left and continuing clockwise around the upper field. The engraver's signature A.PATEY appears in small Latin characters at the bottom of the field, below the truncation. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | АЛЕКСАНДАР I. КРАЉ СРБА, ХРВАТА И СЛОВЕНАЦА A.PATEY (Translation: Alexander I, King of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes) |
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Yugoslavia's first coinage as a unified kingdom was struck not domestically — the country lacked the mint capacity — but in Poissy, France, accounting for the small "thunderbolt" privy mark found on these pieces. The 1925 issues were produced under King Aleksandar I, who had suspended the constitution just four years later in 1929 and renamed the country from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, centralizing power in a way that made even the modest symbolism of early coinage politically charged in retrospect.