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5 Perpera - Nikola I
| Issuer | Montenegro |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#6 |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The crowned and mantled coat of arms of the Principality of Montenegro occupies the central field, displaying a double-headed eagle beneath a royal crown with elaborate heraldic mantling draped to either side. The shield on the eagle's breast bears the Montenegrin lion. Flanking the arms are sprigs of oak to the left and olive to the right, symbolising strength and peace. The denomination numeral '5' appears below the shield, with 'ПЕРПЕРА' in a recessed cartouche beneath it, and the date '1909' in the lower exergue. The Cyrillic legend 'КЊАЖЕВИНА ЦРНА ГОРА' arcs around the upper periphery within a beaded border. |
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The 1909 Perpera series marks Montenegro's brief window as a formally proclaimed kingdom — Nikola I elevated the principality to kingdom status in August of that year, and the new coinage was part of the deliberate apparatus of that claim. The perpera itself was pegged to the Latin Monetary Union franc at par, an alignment that gave the tiny Adriatic state a veneer of European monetary legitimacy it could not have sustained independently.
Montenegro had no mint of its own; these were struck in Vienna.