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SERBIA, Alexander I, 1 Dinar 1897, XF

Name: SERBIA, Alexander I, 1 Dinar 1897, XF
SKU: G489
Price: 26 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Obverse: Portrait of Aleksandar I left, legend around

Lettering (Serbian): АЛЕКСАНДАР I. КРАЉ СРБИЈЕ; A. Scharff

Engraver: Anton Scharff

Reverse: Denomination and date within wreath, crown above

Lettering (Serbian): 1 ДИНАР; 1897

Engraver: Ernest Paulin Tasset

Edge: Reeded

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

€ 26 ~~€ 27~~

In stock

Country	Serbia
Ruler	Alexander I (1889-1903)
Face Value	1 Dinar
Year of issue	1897
Metal	Silver
Fineness	835
Catalogue #	KM# 21
Weight, g.	4,95
Diameter, mm.	23,24
Our code	G489
Die Axis	↑↓
Additional info	-

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History

1897 was a year of uneasy calm in Serbia – the kind of calm that precedes a storm. On the throne sat King Alexander Obrenović, twenty-one years old, educated, sharp, and already deeply unpopular. He had seized power from his own regents at seventeen, suspended constitutions on a whim, and ruled with an increasingly heavy hand. His father, the formidable ex-King Milan, had been brought back from exile and was tightening his grip on the army. The country’s politics swung between farce and crisis, with cabinets dismissed and recalled like chess pieces.

And yet, on the surface, Serbia in 1897 held its composure. The Greco-Turkish War raged that year to the south, and Alexander maintained strict neutrality – a rare moment of diplomatic steadiness in an otherwise turbulent reign. Belgrade had gas-lit streets, a national theatre, and a fledgling railway network. The 1 Dinar coin, struck in silver, circulated through all of it – through markets and taverns, through the hands of merchants and soldiers and farmers who had little interest in palace intrigue and simply needed to buy bread.

What makes this coin quietly poignant is what comes after. The Obrenović dynasty had just six years left. By 1903, army officers would storm the palace, murder Alexander and his wife Draga, and throw their bodies from a window. The dynasty ended there, in one night of blood and fury, and its coins became relics almost immediately.

The 1 Dinar of 1897 carries the last profile of a dynasty on its way out – though no one holding it at the time could have known that.