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2 Dinara - Aleksandar I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Serbia |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Aleksandar I of Serbia facing left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair, as engraved by Anton Scharff. The portrait occupies the majority of the field, with the truncation of the neck visible at the lower centre. The engraver's signature 'A. SCHARFF' appears incuse along the lower rim below the bust. The Cyrillic legend 'АЛЕКСАНДАР I. КРАЉ СРБИЈЕ' (Aleksandar I, King of Serbia) arcs along the upper periphery, framed by a continuous beaded border. |
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| Mint | Vienna Mint |
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Serbia's 1897 coinage was struck in Paris at the Monnaie de Paris, a dependency rooted in the monetary conventions of the Latin Monetary Union — which Serbia never formally joined but whose standards it shadowed closely throughout the late nineteenth century. The .835 fineness here is precisely the LMU's mandated silver standard for subsidiary coinage, an alignment that eased trade with France, Italy, and their allies without requiring political membership.
Aleksandar I's reign ended violently in June 1903, when a group of army officers murdered both him and Queen Draga in the Royal Palace in Belgrade. The Obrenović dynasty died with him that night.