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20 Dinara - Aleksandar I
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold double-headed eagle displayed with wings spread, surmounted by a royal crown with cross finial. The eagle bears upon its breast the quartered coat of arms of Yugoslavia, depicting the Serbian cross with firesteels and the Croatian chequered shield. The date 19-31 is divided across the field to the left and right of the eagle's body. The denomination 20 DINARA is inscribed in the lower exergual area. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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Yugoslavia's 1931 coinage program coincided directly with King Aleksandar's abolition of the constitution and his establishment of a royal dictatorship in January 1929 — a regime he cemented by renaming the country itself from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. These coins were struck under that explicitly centralized authority, part of a deliberate effort to project unified national identity through currency at a moment when ethnic and political tensions were tearing at the state's seams.
Aleksandar was assassinated in Marseille in October 1934, making the entire run of his named coinage a compressed, politically charged episode. The .500 silver specification placed this piece firmly in the debased middle ground common to interwar European silver — respectable enough for public confidence, cheap enough for a government managing postwar debt.