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20 Dinara FNR legend
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Value | 20 Dinars (20 Dinara) |
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| Obverse description | Central design features the state coat of arms of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1943–1963 version, comprising five flaming torches bound together, symbolising the five constituent nations, set within a wreath. The circular Cyrillic legend naming the country runs along the periphery, with the foundation date 29·XI·1943 inscribed at the base of the design. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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The 1955 Yugoslav 20 Dinara marks a transitional moment in the country's postwar monetary system, issued just as Tito's government was navigating the economic fallout from the 1948 Tito-Stalin split and attempting to stabilize a currency that had already undergone one major reform in 1944. The "FNR" legend — Federativna Narodna Republika — would be replaced on later coinage when the constitutional name changed to SFRJ in 1963, making this designation a fixed historical marker of the earlier federal structure.