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!
Dinar Đurađ Branković master of Kosovo
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1402-1412 |
| 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 | 16 mm |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized armored equestrian figure, likely representing the lord Đurađ Branković, mounted and facing left in a dynamic pose characteristic of medieval Serbian coinage. The horse and rider are rendered in a bold, somewhat schematic relief typical of hammered Serbian dinars of the early 15th century. A Cyrillic legend surrounds the central device, reading ГОСПОДИНЬ ГЮРГЬ, identifying the issuer as Lord Đurađ. The flan is irregular and slightly uneven at the edges, consistent with hand-cut planchets of the period. The overall die work reflects the local workshop tradition of medieval Serbian minting. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Cyrillic (medieval) |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Đurađ Branković struck these dinars during the decade he held Kosovo as a fief under his father Stefan Lazarević, who had accepted Ottoman suzerainty after Kosovo Polje in 1389. The political arrangement was genuinely complex: Stefan held the Serbian despotate as a vassal of both the Ottomans and, intermittently, Hungary, while Đurađ administered Kosovo semi-independently — which is precisely why he issued coinage in his own name at all.
The 1402 start date coincides with Timur's destruction of the Ottoman army at Ankara, which briefly relaxed Turkish pressure on the Balkans and gave Serbian lords unusual room to maneuver.