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SERBIA, Peter I, 1 Dinar 1912, XF-UNC

Name: SERBIA, Peter I, 1 Dinar 1912, XF-UNC
SKU: G493
Price: 18 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Obverse: A bust of Peter I facing right with the Engraver’s signature under his neck and legend around.

Lettering (Serbian): ПЕТАР I. КРАЉ СРБИЈЕ; SCHWARTZ

Engraver: Stefan Schwartz

Reverse: Denomination and date within wreath, crown above.

Lettering (Serbian): 1 ДИНАР; 1912

Engraver: Stefan Schwartz

Edge: Milled

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

€ 18 ~~€ 19~~

In stock

Country	Serbia
Ruler	Peter I (1903-18)
Face Value	1 Dinar
Year of issue	1912
Metal	Silver
Fineness	835
Catalogue #	KM# 25.1
Weight, g.	4,99
Diameter, mm.	23,12
Our code	G493
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	Rev.: Scratches

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History

In October 1912, Serbia went to war – and for once, it won decisively.

For decades, the question of Macedonia had haunted Balkan politics. Vast territories still under Ottoman control were home to millions of Slavic Christians who looked to Belgrade with hope. The Ottoman Empire was visibly crumbling, distracted by a war with Italy in Libya, torn apart by the Young Turk revolution from within. The moment, it seemed, had finally come. Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro formed the Balkan League and, on October 17, declared war on the Ottoman Empire. What followed stunned the world. Within weeks, the combined Balkan armies had driven the Ottomans from nearly all their remaining European territory. The Serbian army swept through Macedonia, captured Skopje, and advanced all the way to the Adriatic. It was the most dramatic military success in Serbia’s modern history.

The 1 Dinar of 1912 was struck at the very threshold of this transformation. On the obverse, King Peter I – the same quiet, bookish soldier-king who had translated John Stuart Mill, who had come to the throne from exile just nine years earlier – now stood on the eve of his greatest triumph. His profile on this coin belongs to a man whose country was about to double in size.

What makes 1912 so charging as a moment in history is not just the victory itself, but what it set in motion. Austria-Hungary watched Serbia’s expansion with open alarm. The tensions that erupted from these Balkan wars would, two years later, ignite the First World War. The assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 was not a cause of it, it was a consequence. The fuse had already been lit.

This coin was minted just before the spark.