Dinar - Stefan Uroš IV Dušan horseman, christ standing

These small dinars were struck during the reign of Stefan Uroš V, who inherited a Serbian empire already fragmenting after his father Dušan's death in December 1355. Dušan had crowned himself Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks in 1346, but the overextended realm never cohered under his weaker successor. The continued use of Dušan's iconographic types under Uroš V — hence the attribution confusion common in the literature — reflects a deliberate claim to legitimacy rather than administrative inertia.

By 1371, Serbian power collapsed at the Battle of Maritsa, effectively ending independent coinage of this type.