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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 lettering | ALEKSANDAR I. KRALJ JUGOSLAVIJE KOVNICA·A·D· (Translation: Aleksandar I. King of Yugoslavia Kovnica·A·D·) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.