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Message:: [QUOTE="petronius, post: 1784279, member: 37365"]Italian occupation of Montenegro. When Italians occupied Montenegro in 1941, did not issued a new occupation currency, as in Greece, but validated the Yugoslavian currency in circulation for use in occupied area.The validation was usually a circular stamp, showing a woman holding a torch on a pedestal (allegorical representation of Italy) and the word "VERIFICATO" (Verified), applied in black twice to each note's face. [ATTACH=full]286284[/ATTACH]  10 dinara September 22, 1939, portrait of King Peter II of Yugoslavia as a young man [ATTACH=full]286285[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]286288[/ATTACH]  20 dinaraSeptember 6, 1936, portrait of King Peter II as a child   [ATTACH=full]286289[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]286290[/ATTACH] Peter II was the last King of Yugoslavia. Born in 1923 he became King in 1934, after the death of his father, Alexander I, killed during a journey in France. During the war he set up a government-in-exile in England, and at the end of the war was deposed by the new Communist government, while he was still in exile.Peter II did not abdicate ever. After the war he lived in US and died in Denver, November 3, 1970. petronius <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]