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100 Dinara Birth of Vuk Karadžić
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Composition | Nickel brass (61% Cu, 20% Zn, 19% Ni) |
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| Reverse description | A bold, high-relief truncated bust of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić faces right in profile, depicted wearing a traditional Serbian kalpak cap and period costume with a distinctive beard. The Cyrillic commemorative legend arcs around the upper periphery within a beaded border. The date '1987' is inscribed in the lower field beneath the portrait. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the 200th anniversary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić's birth, this commemorative honored the man who single-handedly standardized the Serbian language — a linguist and folklorist who faced sustained opposition from the Orthodox Church and Serbian literary establishment for decades before his reforms were officially accepted, two years after his death in 1864. His phonetic alphabet, built on the principle "write as you speak, read as you write," replaced a Slavonic-Russian hybrid that most literate Serbs found nearly unusable.
The KM#127.1 and 127.2 varieties differ by edge inscription.