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Dinar Jelena Mrnjavčević wife of king Vukašin
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
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| Year | 1365-1388 |
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| Diameter | 16 mm |
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| Obverse description | Five-line medieval Serbian Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field, reading the royal title and name of Queen Jelena. The legends are arranged in horizontal lines across the flan, rendered in the characteristic angular letterforms of 14th-century Serbian epigraphy. The coin exhibits the irregular, hand-struck flan typical of hammered medieval Balkan coinage. A cross divider is visible between lines of the legend. The lettering is boldly struck and occupies virtually the full diameter of the coin. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic (medieval) |
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Jelena was the wife of King Vukašin Mrnjavčević, who ruled as co-king alongside the nominal Serbian emperor Uroš V following the fragmentation of Dušan's empire. Vukašin died at the Battle of Maritsa in 1371 — a catastrophic Ottoman victory that effectively ended Serbian control over Macedonia. That Jelena continued issuing coinage in her own name after his death, through the reign of her son Marko Kraljević, is unusual for the period and reflects the political complexity of the Mrnjavčević domain as it steadily contracted under Ottoman pressure.