Yugoslavia 1976 dinar

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This specimen was issued by Yugoslavia in the later years of Tito's rule as part of the F.A.O. series. Yugoslavia was originally formed out of the wreckage of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War One. The king of Serbia was given the throne and he and his successors ruled uneasily until the Nazi invasion of 1941. Resistance against the Germans spawned numerous partisan guerilla groups, of which the most successful was the Communist Serbs led by Tito, who went on to head the country after the war. His stature may be measured by the fact that he was one of the few to stand up to Stalin in the fifties. Yugoslavia collapsed into a bloody civil war after his death.

Recorded mintage: 500,000.

Specification: copper-nickel-zinc, 21.6 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 61.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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• 1965 dinar
• Yugoslavia 1976 10 dinara
• 1983 dinar
• Coins and currency dated 1976
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