Catalog
1 Dinar
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse description | At left, a circular medallion vignette portrays a helmeted warrior's head in profile — traditionally identified as the Serbian national hero Miloš Obilić — set against a fine geometric guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The denomination numeral "1" appears in large figures at upper left and at right, flanked by trilingual ministry inscriptions in Cyrillic, Latin and Slovenian scripts. A manuscript signature of the Minister of Finance appears at lower right beneath the Cyrillic legend МИНИСТАР ФИНАНСИЈА. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed predominantly in red-brown on a cream paper, enclosed within a decorative floral vine border. A central guilloche rosette underprint occupies the middle of the field, over which the French numeral "UN" is printed in large bold letters flanked by the numeral "1" on each side. The denomination "DINAR" appears in large capitals below the central vignette, with the French-language ministry inscription set across the top in two lines. |
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had existed for barely a year when this note was issued, and the Ministry of Finance was still improvising — relying on the Banque de France to produce currency while domestic printing infrastructure was either destroyed or still tied to the old Serbian state apparatus. The 1 Dinar of 1919 is a product of that gap between political proclamation and administrative reality.
Pick #12 is frequently confused with the earlier Serbian wartime issues, and the transition-period exchange rates that accompanied its release made small denominations like this one heavily circulated and, consequently, difficult to find in solid condition.