50 Para - Petar II

Yugoslavia's 1938 coinage program was one of the last undertaken before the Axis invasion of April 1941 effectively ended the Kingdom's existence. The National Bank had been navigating severe fiscal strain throughout the late 1930s, and the shift to aluminium bronze for smaller denominations was a direct cost-reduction measure — the same alloy logic driving similar transitions across interwar Europe. Coins struck in this period saw minimal circulation wear not because of careful handling, but because the occupation came so quickly after issue.