2 Dinara - Aleksandar I

Yugoslavia's first coinage as a unified kingdom was struck not domestically — the country lacked the mint capacity — but in Poissy, France, accounting for the small "thunderbolt" privy mark found on these pieces. The 1925 issues were produced under King Aleksandar I, who had suspended the constitution just four years later in 1929 and renamed the country from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, centralizing power in a way that made even the modest symbolism of early coinage politically charged in retrospect.