20 Dinara Dositej Obradović

Dositej Obradović was the first Minister of Education of Serbia following the establishment of the modern Serbian state, and the face chosen for this coin was no accident — his 18th-century push to replace Church Slavonic with vernacular Serbian in literature and public life made him the intellectual anchor of Serbian national identity long before a nation-state existed to claim him. The 20 dinara denomination was introduced as part of Serbia's 2003 currency reform following the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the reintroduction of the dinar as a strictly Serbian currency.