Dinar of the despot Đurađ Branković

The monetary reform that marked the coinage of the Despot Đurađ Branković after 1435 with a new minting organisation, highlighted the changed, secular iconography on the money of enviable artistic processing and the quality of minting. In addition to the issuance of coins without mint marks, their marking commenced during the reform period. A number of these issues referred to as monete nove, relate to the mint that operated on Novo Brdo in the proximity of the most important medieval silver mine in the central Balkans. At the time when it experienced the greatest rise of production, the dinar of despot Đurađ was minted with a reverse depiction of a lion, a symbol of the Branković dynasty, encircled by the Cyrillic inscription marking the Novo Brdo mint.