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Dinar - Stefan Uroš IV Dušan with Helen, profile
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
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| Year | 1346-1355 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse lettering | СФЬ ꙀР |
| Reverse description | Christ Pantokrator is depicted enthroned en face, robed in imperial Byzantine vestments, holding an open or closed book of the Gospels on His knee, its cover ornamented with five gems or pellets. The figure is presented in the rigid, frontal hieratic manner characteristic of Serbian medieval ecclesiastical coinage. A Cyrillic Christogram legend flanks the figure in the field. |
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Stefan Dušan proclaimed himself Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks in 1346, the same year this coinage type begins — a deliberate assertion of Byzantine-level authority that required new imperial imagery to match. His wife Helen of Bulgaria appeared alongside him on the coinage as co-ruler, a practice borrowed directly from Byzantine numismatic convention to reinforce the legitimacy of his expanded title.
Dušan's empire collapsed within a decade of his death in 1355, fragmenting into rival principalities almost immediately. These dinars circulated at the peak of medieval Serbian territorial extent.