The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (previously called Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) was an evolution of the Coat of arms of Serbia. Graphically the coat of arms were similar, featuring only two major differences.
The first difference being the royal crowns, The royal Serbian coat of arms depicts the Obrenović dynastic crown. While the royal Yugoslav coat of arms depicted the ruling Karađorđević dynastic crown.
The second difference was the shield surmounted on the white double headed eagle. The previous Serbian coat of arms depicted only the Serbian tetragrammatic cross, representing only the Serbian nation. When Yugoslavia was formed, the surmounted shield was altered to include the newly integrated Croat and Slovene nations, as the three official nations of Yugoslavia.
An image of the royal Yugoslav coat of arms can be seen on the 10-Yugoslav dinar banknote of 1926.[1]
