In today's video, we are presenting the largest gold coin issued during the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which is the quadruple ducat from 1931 featuring the image of King Alexander I Karađorđević and Queen Maria. This gold coin bears the „bird“ hallmark (stamp). The ducats themselves are not money in the legal sense, but rather
Following the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after October 29, 1918, the banknotes of the Austro-Hungarian Bank remained in circulation in the successor states, in the Kingdom of SCS some even until 1922. In January 1919, the Kingdom of SCS carried out the first nostrification of the found banknotes, prescribing the stamping only of those banknotes issued until
A countermark is a stamp impressed on coins to indicate that they can be used in payment transactions. Usually, foreign and domestic (older) money was countermarked. This practice was used as early as the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and continued through the Middle Ages and the modern era.
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