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YUGOSLAVIA - KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES - ALEXANDER I Ducat 1931 AU

MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 216.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 250.00 €

Type : Ducat

Date: 1931

Quantity minted : 150000

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 986 ‰

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,49 g.

Edge : cannelée

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

De petites marques de manipulation sur les reliefs notamment une minime griffe sur la joue sinon un exemplaire d’aspect splendide avec une léger effet “camée” (les reliefs mats sur champs miroir)

Catalogue references :

WGC.12.2 - F.5

Obverse

Obverse legend : LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE.

Obverse description : Tête nue d'Alexandre Ier à gauche, au-dessous signature et contremarque “feuille de maïs”.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE.

Reverse description : Aigle héraldique bicéphale et couronnée.

Reverse translation : (1 ducat).

Historical background

YUGOSLAVIA - KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES - ALEXANDER I

(1921-1934)

Alexander I (16/12/1888 - 9/10/1934) is the second son of Peter I of Serbia (1903 - 1921) whom he succeeded in 1921. In 1922 he married Marie of Romania. King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1921, Alexander I took the name of King of Yugoslavia in 1929. The king had to fight the Croatian separatist movement of the Ustashi. He was finally assassinated in Marseilles with Louis Barthou, on October 9, 1934. His son Pierre II succeeded him (1934-1945).