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  • 5 Dinara 1904, KM# 27, Serbia, Kingdom, Petar I Karađorđević, 100th Anniversary of the Karađorđević Dynasty
  • 5 Dinara 1904, KM# 27, Serbia, Kingdom, Petar I Karađorđević, 100th Anniversary of the Karađorđević Dynasty
Description

The Karađorđević is a Serbian dynastic family, founded by Karađorđe Petrović, the Veliki Vožd ("Grand Leader") of Serbia in the early 1800s during the First Serbian Uprising. The relatively short-lived dynasty was supported by the Russian Empire and was opposed to the Austria-Hungary supported Obrenović dynasty. After Karađorđe's assassination in 1817, Miloš Obrenović founded the House of Obrenović. The two houses subsequently traded the throne for several generations. Following the assassination of Alexander in 1903, the Serbian Parliament chose Karađorđe's grandson, Peter Karađorđević, then living in exile, for the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia. He was duly crowned as King Peter I, and shortly before the end of World War I, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with Peter I as sovereign. In 1929, the Kingdom was renamed Yugoslavia, under Alexander I, the son of Peter I. In November 1945, the throne was lost when the League of Communists of Yugoslavia seized power, during the reign of Peter II.

Engraver: Stefan Schwartz

Obverse

A profile portrait of Đorđe Petrović (Karađorđe) partially covered by a profile portrait of King Petar I Karađorđević, both facing to the right, surrounded by the inscription "Petar I. Karađorđe". Engravers initials below.

Peter I (Serbian: Петар; 1844–1921) reigned as the last King of Serbia (1903–1918) and as the first King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1921). Since he was the king of Serbia during a period of great Serbian military success, he was remembered by Serbian people as King Peter the Liberator, and also known as Old King.

Đorđe Petrović (Serbian: Ђорђе Петровић), better known by the sobriquet Black George, or Karađorđe (Serbian: Карађорђе) (1768–1817), was a Serbian revolutionary leader who fought for his country's independence from the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising of 1804–1813. Karađorđe is considered the founder of the Karađorđević dynasty, which ruled Serbia in several intervals during the 19th and 20th centuries.

ПЕТАР I. КАРА-ЂОРЂЕ
SCHWARTZ

Reverse

Denomination below Greater coat of arms of Kingdom of Serbia. Date above.

The coat of arms consists of two main heraldic symbols which represent the national identity of the Serbian people across the centuries, the crowned Serbian eagle (a white double-headed eagle adopted from the Nemanjić dynasty) and the Serbian cross.

The Serbian cross, a national symbol of Serbia, based on the tetragrammic cross emblem/flag of the Byzantine Palaiologos dynasty. It is composed of a cross symbol with four stylized letters "S" (С) in Cyrillic on each of its corners, heraldically referred-to as "firesteels", which historically originate as the Greek letters beta (β–Β).

1804 1904
★ 5 ДИНАРА ★

Edge

God Save Serbia

***** БОГ * ЧУВА * СРБИJУ

5 Dinara

100th Anniversary of the Karađorđević Dynasty

KM# 27
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Silver
Fineness 0.900
Weight 25 g
Diameter 37 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Medal

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Principality

Silver, 25 g, ⌀ 37 mm