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Dinar - Stefan Uroš IV Dušan
| Issuer | Serbian Empire |
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| Year | 1346-1355 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Christ Pantokrator standing within a beaded inner border, robed in maphorion with decorative ornamentation, right hand raised in benediction and left hand holding the Gospels. The nimbed head is depicted with characteristic Byzantine iconographic conventions. The Christological abbreviation IC XC appears in the fields to either side of the figure, rendered in Cyrillic characters. |
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| Obverse lettering | IC XC |
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Dušan's assumption of the title "Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks" in 1346 — a direct provocation to Byzantium — fundamentally changed the coinage program. The dinar series issued under the imperial title was distinct from his earlier royal issues, with the Dobrinić classification system separating them accordingly. Dušan had exploited Byzantine civil war between Kantakouzenos and the regency of John V Palaiologos to seize vast Macedonian and Epirote territories, and the coinage of this period reflects the administrative ambition of a ruler genuinely attempting to construct a rival Orthodox empire. He died in 1355 before crossing into Thrace.