YUGOSLAVIA SFR 1000 dinar 1980
$50.00
YUGOSLAVIA, SFR, 1000 dinar, 1980, Obverse: bust of Tito, Reverse: building, silver, 0.4164 ozT, Vukovar conference, KM77, Proof
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Description
In 1920 a meeting of communists in Vukovar voted to align with the Soviet led Comintern. This coin commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of that meeting.
Vukovar is a city in Croatia. It was heavily damaged during the wars of the 1990s when Yugoslavia broke up.
The Balkans have been an unstable region since Greek times. A kingdom, uniting Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Slovenia, was established after World War I. The Germans invaded Yugoslavia during World War II and broke it into pieces, issuing coins for some of them. The Germans were defeated by a coalition of partisans dominated by communists led by Josip Broz Tito. The communist government endured until after the breakup of the Soviet Union, then broke up into several states.
The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of local autonomy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes, stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.
By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.
