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5 Para - Petar I
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1918-1941) |
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| Obverse description | The Royal Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes displayed prominently in the center, featuring a crowned double-headed eagle beneath a large royal crown. The shield bears the combined heraldic emblems of the constituent nations, supported by elaborate decorative mantling on either side. The entire design is rendered in fine relief against a flat field, surrounded by a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '5' dominates the center of the reverse in bold relief, flanked on the left by the Cyrillic inscription 'ПАРА' and on the right by the Latin inscription 'PARA', both reading outward from the central numeral. The date '1920' is inscribed in the lower exergual area beneath the value. A small decorative device, depicting a stylized eagle or ornamental motif, appears at the top of the field above the numeral. The design is enclosed by a beaded border. |
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Yugoslavia's first coinage issue, struck in 1920 as the newly unified Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes scrambled to replace the patchwork of Austrian, Hungarian, Serbian, and Bulgarian currencies still circulating across its territory. The zinc alloy was a practical concession — copper and nickel were still in short supply across postwar Europe, and zinc had proven serviceable as a wartime expedient by multiple belligerents.
The KM#1 designation is apt: this is literally coin number one for a state that had existed for barely two years.