Catalog
50 Dinara
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Value | 50 Dinars (50 Dinara) |
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| Reverse description | At right, the royal coat of arms is displayed on the breast of a double-headed white eagle beneath a golden crown. The central vignette presents Ivan Meštrović's equestrian statue of Prince Marko, rendered in intaglio against a guilloche underprint with the bilingual Latin-script legends bordering the design. |
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| Protection description | Young King Peter II Karađorđević wearing a falconry hat |
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| Comments |
The 1931 series marked one of the first major outputs of ZIN after the Royal Dictatorship of January 1929 consolidated the south Slavic state into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Bringing note production entirely in-house — rather than contracting Bradbury Wilkinson or the American Bank Note Company as earlier Belgrade governments had — was a deliberate assertion of institutional independence, though ZIN's technical capabilities in the early 1930s were still maturing.
Andrejević Kun, one of the more accomplished engravers working in interwar Belgrade, also contributed to postage stamp production of the same period. His hand is more evident on the higher denominations of this series than on the 50 Dinara.