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Dinar Lazar Hrebeljanović lettering
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
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| Year | 1371-1389 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | ВЬХА БАБΛГО ВЪPNНH KNE3БΛ Α3ΑP |
| Reverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of Christ Pantokrator standing before a throne, nimbed and robed in imperial Byzantine fashion, holding the Book of Gospels in the left hand, its cover decorated with five gemstones. The figure is rendered in the hieratic Byzantine iconographic tradition standard to medieval Serbian coinage. The Christogram legend appears in the fields flanking the figure. The beaded border frames the design on the irregular hammered flan. |
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Lazar Hrebeljanović ruled not as a king but as a prince — knez — having never claimed the royal title his predecessors held, a political reality that distinguishes his coinage from earlier Serbian issues. He came to power after the fragmentation that followed Tsar Uroš V's death in 1371, consolidating control over Moravian Serbia while other lords carved up the former empire. His reign ended at Kosovo Polje on June 28, 1389, where he died fighting the Ottoman army of Murad I — a battle that effectively ended organized Serbian resistance for generations. The Serbian Orthodox Church canonized him within years of his death.