Serbia

SERBIA, Peter I, 2 Dinara 1904, XF-UNC

Name: SERBIA, Peter I, 2 Dinara 1904, XF-UNC
SKU: C497
Price: 37 EUR
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Obverse: Portrait of Peter I right, legend around

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

Engraver: Stefan Schwartz

Reverse: Denomination and date within wreath, crown above

Lettering (Serbian): 2 ДИНАРА; 1904

Engraver: Ernest Paulin Tasset

Edge: Reeded

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

€ 37

In stock

Country	Serbia
Ruler	Peter I (1903-18)
Face Value	2 Dinara
Year of issue	1904
Metal	Silver
Fineness	835
Catalogue #	KM# 26.1
Weight, g.	9,95
Diameter, mm.	27,08
Our code	C497
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	-

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History

In September 1904, Belgrade celebrated as it rarely had before. King Peter I was being crowned at St. Michael’s Cathedral – the first formal coronation in Serbia’s modern history. The date was chosen deliberately: it coincided with the centennial of the First Serbian Uprising, the moment a century earlier when Peter’s own grandfather, Karađorđe, had risen against the Ottomans and struck the first blow for Serbian freedom. The symbolism was impossible to miss.

Just fourteen months had passed since the May Coup of 1903, when army officers stormed the Royal Palace and ended the Obrenović dynasty in one violent night. Peter had been living quietly in Geneva when the call came. He was fifty-eight years old – a decorated veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, a man who had translated John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty into Serbian in his youth, a lifelong exile who had spent decades waiting for a country that might never call his name. Then it did.

The 2 Dinara of 1904 was struck in this atmosphere of reinvention. Peter’s profile on the obverse was new to Serbian coinage – a different face, a different dynasty, a different promise. Where the Obrenović kings had grown increasingly autocratic and erratic, Peter arrived with a constitution, a free press, and a vision of Serbia as a modern parliamentary state. Historians would later call his reign the Golden Age of Serbian Democracy.

The coin itself circulated through a country exhaling after decades of political suffocation – through coffee houses where newspapers could finally be read openly, through markets in a city beginning to think of itself as a European capital.

It is a small silver object from the first year of a new era. And the era, for a time, was genuinely golden.