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Dinar - King Stefan III Dusan
| Issuer | Serbian Medieval Kingdom |
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| Year | 1331-1346 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Ornamented helmet shown facing left, rendered in medieval decorative style with squares and a dotted line across the face. The helmet is depicted with characteristic knightly embellishment, serving as the primary device in the field. A Latin legend encircles the helmet, attributing the royal title to the issuer. |
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| Reverse lettering | IC - XC N - G |
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Stefan Dušan seized the Serbian throne in 1331 by deposing his own father, Stefan Dečanski, who died in captivity shortly after — almost certainly by strangulation on his son's orders. The dinar issues of this early reign period predate Dušan's self-proclamation as Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks in 1346, after which the coinage and titulature changed substantially. Jovanović type 11-1 falls within a transitional stretch of minting activity tied directly to Dušan's aggressive territorial expansion into Byzantine Macedonia.