Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
6000 Novih Dinara Chilandar
| Issuer | National Bank of Yugoslavia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1998-1999 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a devotional icon-style composition depicting two robed, bearded monastic figures in three-quarter bust, rendered in the Byzantine iconographic tradition with elongated facial features and frontal gaze. The figure at left raises one hand in a gesture of blessing or presentation, while both figures hold their hands before them in a manner consistent with Orthodox devotional imagery. A triangular divine symbol appears at the apex of the field between the two haloed figures. Small Cyrillic identifying inscriptions appear to the left and right of the respective figures. A decorative foliate border of stylised acanthus leaves fills the lower field, framing the composition. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | National Bank of Yugoslavia Mint (Topčider) |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued in the final months before Yugoslavia's catastrophic hyperinflation rendered the dinar essentially worthless, this gold commemorative honored the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Chilandar on Mount Athos — founded in 1198 by Stefan Nemanja and his son Rastko, later canonized as Saint Sava. The National Bank issued it knowing full well that the face value of 6,000 dinars was already an abstraction; by mid-1999, the denomination was economically meaningless against the collapsing currency.
Chilandar remains one of the twenty ruling monasteries of the Athonite monastic republic and has been under Serbian stewardship for over eight centuries.