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Dinar - Stefan Uros II Milutin
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
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| Year | 1282-1321 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned king facing, shown full-length in regal vestments, holding a cross-tipped scepter in his right hand with a sword laid horizontally across his lap. The figure is rendered in the Byzantine-influenced style typical of medieval Serbian coinage, with the throne depicted in a stylized architectural form. The peripheral legend in Latin uncial script identifies the issuer as King Stephen. The overall composition follows the royal majesty type common to Nemanjic dynasty dinars. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA REGIS STEFANI (Translation: Coin of King Stephen) |
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Stefan Uroš II Milutin ruled Serbia for nearly four decades, an unusually long and expansionary reign during which he pushed his borders deep into Byzantine Macedonia and extracted enormous wealth in silver from the mines at Brskovo and Novo Brdo. That mining income funded not only warfare but a prolific church-building program — Milutin is credited with founding or restoring over forty monasteries. The dinars produced under his authority circulated widely across the Balkans and were accepted in Ragusan trade accounts by name.
Jovanović type 7.17 falls within a series showing progressive refinement as Serbian minting practice absorbed Venetian grosso conventions in both weight standard and fabric.