Stefan Dragutin ruled Serbia from 1276 until his forced abdication in 1282, when his brother Milutin seized power after Dragutin suffered a serious leg injury at a tournament — an event Serbian sources treated as divine judgment. Dragutin did not disappear from the political scene, however; he continued ruling a northeastern appanage centered on Mačva and Srem under Hungarian suzerainty until his death in 1316, which explains the unusually wide dating range on this issue. Coins attributable to the post-abdication phase of his reign are particularly difficult to assign with precision, as his reduced territory maintained its own minting activity independent of the Serbian royal court at Ras.
Stefan Dragutin ruled Serbia from 1276 until his forced abdication in 1282, when his brother Milutin seized power after Dragutin suffered a serious leg injury at a tournament — an event Serbian sources treated as divine judgment. Dragutin did not disappear from the political scene, however; he continued ruling a northeastern appanage centered on Mačva and Srem under Hungarian suzerainty until his death in 1316, which explains the unusually wide dating range on this issue. Coins attributable to the post-abdication phase of his reign are particularly difficult to assign with precision, as his reduced territory maintained its own minting activity independent of the Serbian royal court at Ras.