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5 Dinara / Dinars
| Issuer | Ministarstvo Financija Kraljevstva Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca / Ministerstvo Financ Kraljevstva Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev / Ministère des Finances du Royaume des Serbes, Croates et Slovènes |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on a light ground with an intricate guilloche underprint and scrollwork border. To the left, a circular vignette contains an intaglio portrait of a bearded warrior in profile wearing a plumed helmet. The denomination numeral '5' appears in large figures flanking the central panel, with the word 'ANNULE' overprinted across the face and the Cyrillic inscription 'ДИНАРА / DINARA' below; the trilingual ministry title appears in three scripts across the upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | MINISTÈRE DES FINANCES DU ROYAUME DES SERBES, CROATES ET SLOVENES 5 CINQ DINARS |
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This note was issued by the Finance Ministry of the newly proclaimed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes — a state that had existed for barely a year when this series appeared. The trilingual issuing authority, rendered in Serbian, Slovenian, and French, was a deliberate political signal: the new government needed to paper over three distinct monetary traditions, having absorbed former Austro-Hungarian kronen territory alongside the old Serbian dinar zone.
The P#12A designation distinguishes a specific signature or paper variant within the 1919 small-denomination run. Low-value notes of this period circulated hard and wore out fast; intact examples are genuinely less common than their higher-denomination counterparts from the same series.