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Dinar - King Stefan III Dušan
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
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| Year | 1331-1346 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Reverse description | Christ enthroned in Majesty (Christ Pantokrator), shown facing, seated upon an ornate throne with a nimbus surrounding the head. Mint marks or decorative symbols appear to the left and right of the throne. The Christological nomina sacra IC XC appear in the fields flanking the figure, following the Byzantine iconographic convention standard on medieval Serbian dinars. The composition draws directly from Byzantine artistic tradition, reflecting the strong ecclesiastical and cultural influence on the Nemanjić-era Serbian court. |
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| Reverse lettering | IC XC (Translation: (In Greek: Ιησούς Χριστός - Jesus Christ)) |
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Stefan Dušan seized the Serbian throne in 1331 by deposing — and likely ordering the murder of — his own father, Stefan Dečanski, who died under suspicious circumstances in Zvečan fortress shortly after the coup. The dinar issues of this earlier regnal period, before Dušan's self-proclamation as Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks in 1346, are catalogued under his royal rather than imperial title, making the terminus date on this type a hard boundary tied directly to that coronation at Skopje.
Jovanović 11.5 places this among the more precisely attributable types in a series complicated by Dušan's prolific and often loosely controlled minting across multiple sites in the expanded Serbian state.