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Dinar 'Horseman Type' - Stefan Uroš IV Dušan
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
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| Year | 1345-1355 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1217-1459) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Equestrian effigy of Stefan Uroš IV Dušan advancing to the right, depicted crowned and vested in imperial loros, bearing a cruciform scepter in his right hand. The horse is rendered in profile with visible detailing of the mane and caparison. Serbian Cyrillic initials identifying the ruler appear in the field to the left of the horseman, consistent with the titulature adopted following Dušan's proclamation as Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks in 1345. |
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Dušan struck these dinars during his most aggressive period of territorial expansion — by 1345 he controlled much of Macedonia, Epirus, and Thessaly, and in April 1346 had himself crowned "Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks" at Skopje, elevating Serbia's monetary ambitions alongside its political ones. The horseman type belongs broadly to a tradition borrowed from earlier Nemanjić coinage, but Dušan's issues proliferated through a newly vast empire administered partly through absorbed Byzantine fiscal infrastructure.
Jovanović #27 sits within a closely related cluster of dies whose attribution sequence remains contested among Balkan numismatists. Weight variation across surviving examples is notable even by medieval standards.