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25 Para - Petar II Pattern
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 25 Para (0.25) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1938 - Pattern |
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Pattern coinage for Yugoslavia in 1938 was produced as part of a broader effort to reform the country's fractional denominations under the royal dictatorship established by King Alexander in 1929 — a political structure that survived his 1934 assassination in Marseille and continued under the regency of Prince Paul. The 25 Para denomination had effectively lost purchasing power significance by this point, making its reissue politically symbolic as much as practical. Most 1938 patterns never advanced to circulation approval.
The copper-plated bronze composition itself signals experimental intent — a cost-reduction trial that was common across interwar European mints facing tight budgets and uncertain metal supplies ahead of the coming war.