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100 Dinara
| Issuer | Serbia |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 100 Dinars (100 динарa) |
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| Obverse lettering | СТО ДИНАРА Ову новчаницу издају и примају све државне благајне у Србији у 100 ДИНАРА Државне новчанице издају се на основу законодавне одлуке од 19. Јануара 1876 Ко прави лажне новчанице, и ко се њима служи, казниће се по §§ 145 и 146. кривичног закона. |
| Reverse description | At left, a full-length vignette of Prince Miloš Obrenović in fur-trimmed regalia standing beside a draped table; at right, a group of Serbian soldiers with Prince Mihailo Obrenović holding a military standard, set against a landscape vignette. A double-headed eagle spreads above the central denomination banner, with the numeral 100 in a guilloche panel at the foot of the note. |
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Serbia's earliest paper currency series was born out of fiscal necessity following the establishment of the Uprava fondova (Fund Administration) as a state-issuing authority — the country still lacked a proper central bank, which would not arrive until the Narodna banka was founded in 1883. These first dinara notes circulated alongside Austrian and Turkish coinage in a population that had no particular reason to trust domestic paper.
Pick 5 is the highest denomination in the 1876 series. Large-denomination notes from this issue are considerably scarcer than the lower values, partly because high-denomination notes tend to move through fewer hands before retirement and partly because many were administratively cancelled rather than worn out in trade.