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Front: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian-American inventor and researcher
Tesla was born in Croatia of Serbian origin. He attended the Technical University
at Graz, Austria, and the University of Prague, majoring in engineering. It was in
Graz he discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most
alternating-current machinery.
He emigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers,
and motors to George Westinghouse the following year. In 1891 he invented the Tesla
coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology.
Back: High frequency transformer and hydroelectric dam
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10,000,000,000 Dinara, 1993
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Front: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian-American inventor and researcher
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500,000,000,000 Dinara, 1993
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Front: Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj (1833-1904), Serb poet
Zmaj was born in Novi Sad. He finished elementary school in Novi Sad and
secondary school in Bratislava. He received his post-secondary education in
Budapest, Praha and Vienna. In 1870 he came back to Novi Sad to work as a doctor.
His writing style covered all genres of poetry: love, lyric, patriotic, political,
and educational. But he is most well known for his children's poetry. His nursery
rhymes have entered national consciousness and people sing them to their children
even without knowing who wrote them.
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10 Dinara, 1994
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Front: Joseph Panchi
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Yugoslavia, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea, was composed of six
autonomous republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia
and Montenegro with two autonomous provinces within Serbia: Kosevo-Metohija and
Vojvodina. Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia declared their
respective independence 1991-1992. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federation of
Serb and Montenegro in 2003. In May 22, 2006 voters of Montenegro decided to
sever the country's union with Serbia.
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