4 Dukata - Aleksandar I Pattern

A pattern issue, never adopted for circulation. The four-dukat denomination had medieval roots in Serbian monetary tradition, and this 1926 trial appears to have been part of a broader exercise in defining a prestige coinage for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under Aleksandar I — a state still barely seven years old and actively constructing its institutional symbols. The Belgrade mint, re-established after the devastation of the First World War, was producing patterns across several denominations through the mid-1920s as the kingdom rationalized its currency framework.

Struck in silver rather than gold despite the dukat name — a deliberate departure from the denomination's historical metal.