Vukašin Mrnjavčević ruled as co-king alongside the nominally supreme Stefan Uroš V, the last of the Nemanjić line, after the Serbian empire fractured following the death of Stefan Dušan in 1355. His coinage belongs to a period of rapid decentralization, when Serbian regional lords struck their own issues with little coordination — each asserting dynastic legitimacy through the act of minting itself. Vukašin died at the Battle of Maritsa in September 1371, where a Ottoman force destroyed the Serbian army, effectively ending Serbian control over Macedonia.
Vukašin Mrnjavčević ruled as co-king alongside the nominally supreme Stefan Uroš V, the last of the Nemanjić line, after the Serbian empire fractured following the death of Stefan Dušan in 1355. His coinage belongs to a period of rapid decentralization, when Serbian regional lords struck their own issues with little coordination — each asserting dynastic legitimacy through the act of minting itself. Vukašin died at the Battle of Maritsa in September 1371, where a Ottoman force destroyed the Serbian army, effectively ending Serbian control over Macedonia.