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20 Dinara - Alexander I Pattern

Issuer Yugoslavia
Year 1925
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Engraver(s) Henri-Auguste Patey
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Reverse lettering 20 DINARA 1925
(Translation: 20 Dinars)
Edge Reeded
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Pattern coinage for Yugoslavia's proposed 1925 gold series was produced in multiple trial compositions, with platinum and platinum-derivative strikes among the rarest survivors. Alexander I had consolidated royal authority following the dissolution of parliamentary government, and the coinage program of this period was partly an exercise in projecting dynastic legitimacy through new currency. Most of the gold series patterns never advanced to circulation strikes.

Gold-plated platinum examples occupy an unusual position — neither purely precious-metal trials nor standard base-metal proofs.