National bank issues Tesla coins

National bank issues Tesla coins

NBS Governor Radovan Jelašić spoke about the image of the famous scientist being used on dinar banknotes from 1970 until today. According to Jelašić, Tesla is most certainly ‘the most frequently represented person’ on the banknotes in the second half of the 20^th century.

‘It could even be said that Tesla shared out fate in this way, through falls and rises of the dinar’, added the governor, speaking at a meeting held in the new building of the central Serbian bank in Belgrade.

Coins with Nikola Tesla’s image worth 20 dinars will be in circulation parallel with the existing coins depicting the St Sava temple, issued in 2003. This is the first time Tesla’s image found its way not only to banknotes, but to coins as well.

Marking the 150^th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s birth, the NBS issued gold and silver coins. This series includes one thousand gold coins, of 10 000 dinar denomination, two thousand gold coins of 5 000 dinar denomination, and two thousand silver coins of 1 000 dinar denomination.

Gold and silver coins have the same visual style – the obverse side shows Nikola Tesla’s portrait and anniversary dates, 1856-2006, while the reverse shows Serbia’s coat-of-arms, with Cyrillic and Latin semi-circular inscription, ‘Republic of Serbia’, as well as denomination, with ‘NBS’ under it.

Commemorative coins prices

Set: gold, 10 000, 5 000, silver 1 000 dinar denomination: 23.724,76 dinars

Gold 10 000 dinar denomination - 16.360,06 dinars

Gold 5 000 dinar denomination - 6.542,30 dinars

Silver 1 000 dinar denomination - 1.078,28 dinars.