2021-05-10 Mon

Serbia, a landlocked country in the Balkan Peninsula, shares borders with Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The independence of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, which borders on Albania, has been recognized by the United States and approximately 100 other countries.

The Kingdom of Serbia issued its first stamps in 1866. Serbia became the dominant nation in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia) in 1918, and issued its last stamps in 1920. After the collapse of Yugoslavia in the Third Balkan War, Serbia and Montenegro began issuing stamps in 2003. Montenegro declared its independence in 2006, and Serbia resumed issuing its own stamps that year.

A truly scarce Serbian stamp is the 3-dinar olive-yellow King Peter I Karageorge stamp. The stamp was issued in 1914 during the first year of World War I. As Serbia was fighting for its existence in the ensuing years against Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Bulgaria, the stamp was not widely distributed and saw little use.

This stamp is truly scarce and a good buy in the used, hinged condition which at the value of USD 190.

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