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SERBIA, Milan IV, 1 Dinar 1879, VF

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Obverse: Effigy of Milan Obrenović IV facing left, legend around.

Lettering (Serbian): МИЛАН М. ОБРЕНОВИЋ IV.; КЊАЗ СРПСКИ; TASSET

Engraver: Ernest Paulin Tasset

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Reverse: Denomination and date within wreath, crown above

Lettering (Serbian): 1 ДИНАР;   1879

Engraver: Ernest Paulin Tasset

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Edge: Reeded


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Country
Ruler Milan IV (1868-82)
Face Value 1 Dinar
Year of issue 1879
Metal Silver
Fineness 835
Catalogue # KM# 10
Weight, g. 4,92
Diameter, mm. 23,09
Our code G495
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22 August 2025:

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History

To understand this coin, you must understand what the year before it meant.

In the summer of 1878, the Great Powers of Europe gathered in Berlin to redraw the map of the Balkans after the Russo-Turkish War. Among the outcomes of that congress, almost as a footnote between the rivalries of empires, was a formal declaration that changed everything for one small nation: Serbia was recognized as fully independent. Not a principality paying tribute to Constantinople, not a vassal balancing between competing empires – but a sovereign state, equal in standing to any other under international law. Centuries of Ottoman suzerainty ended with a signature.

The 1 Dinar of 1879 was among the first coins struck in the wake of that moment. On the obverse is the profile of Prince Milan Obrenović IV – the man who had led Serbia through two bruising wars against the Ottomans and emerged, against considerable odds, on the right side of history. He was twenty-five years old in 1879, ambitious, European in his education, increasingly autocratic in his instincts. Three years later he would crown himself as King. For now, he was still a Prince – but a prince of a free country, and that was new.

What makes this denomination quietly remarkable is its scale. The 1 Dinar was substantial silver currency in a nation that was just beginning to build its modern monetary system, its banks, its railways, its schools. The coin passed through hands that had lived under occupation and now, for the first time in living memory, did not.

It is a small piece of silver from a very large turning point.