Commemorative Coins with the Slovak Banknote motifs :

	Dimensions (mm)	Weight Ag  (g)	Weight Au  (g)	Weight coin (g)
20 Sk	27,1 x 50,6	24,48	-	24,48
50 Sk	28,2 x 52,8	26,63	-	26,63
100 Sk	29,3 x 55,0	28,87	-	28,87
200 Sk	30,4 x 57,2	31,21	-	31,21
500 Sk	31,5 x 59,4	33,63	-	33,63
1000 Sk	32,6 x 61,6	43,91	0,280	44,190
5000 Sk	33,4 x 63,8	46,65	0,594 a 0,370	47,614

purity : Ag 925/1000 Au 999/1000
7 Oz Ag and 1/25 Oz Au
limit : 6 000 coins
price of the coin set is 485 €

All coins are legal tender
The coin is not shown in its true size.
The price does not include postage and handling.
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The independent Slovak Republic originated on 1st January 1993 by the division of Czecho-Slovakia. The National Bank of Slovakia was established on the same day. After the origin of the new state, a new Slovak currency had to be prepared in a short time. The Slovak crown Sk)appeared on the day of separation of the czech and Slovak currencies – 8th February 1993.
The first Slovak banknote to be issued was the fifty crown note. Entering circulation on 30th August 1993, it commenced the gradual replacement of the temporary stamped Czechoslovak banknotes, which had been used since the monetary separation. All seven Slovak banknotes were designed by the painter Jozef Bubák, and were based on a combination of modern and traditional banknote design, combined with a high level of technical protection of banknotes against counterfeiting. The obverse sides of the banknotes bear portraits of the most important personalities associated with the territory of present–day Slovakia, who significantly contributed to shaping the Slovak nation over more than a thousand years of history. Places and designs associated with their lives and activities are depicted on the reverse sides. The hundred crown note with an image of the Madonna from the workshop of Master Paul of Levoča is an exception.
Apart from banknotes and coins intended for circulation, the National Bank of Slovakia has also issued 48 commemorative coins of precious metals with designs representing important personalities and events in the history of Slovakia, natural phenomena and localities included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage.
The set of seven commemorative coins with designs from the banknotes is the most extensive and technically demanding project among the Slovak commemorative coins. It marks the tenth anniversary of the origin of the Slovak Republic, the National Bank of Slovakia and Slovak currency. They were prepared and struck by the Kremnica Mint. The demanding relief transcriptions of the banknotes are the work of the Kremnica medallist Štefan Novotný, designer of the plaster models of the obverse sides of the coins, and Mária Poldaufová, who designed the reverse sides.
The dimensions of the banknotes in metal are 3/8 of the size of the original banknotes. The coins are struck from silver with a fineness of 925/1000. The observe sides of the thousand and five thousand notes include gold blanks with a fineness of 999/1000. The 5000 Sk note has two gold blanks with the „KINEGRAMTM“ optically changeable element applied to one of them. All coins are struck in proof quality.

20 Sk

The obverse bears a portrait of the first known Slavonic ruler in the territory of Slovakia. Prince Pribina (about 800-861). The Principality of Nitra probably originated around the year 800, in an area roughly corresponding to that of present-day Slovakia. Pribina had a church built at Nitra, the capital of the principality. Archbishop Adalram of Salzburg consecrated it in 828. It is the first known Christian church in Slovakia. About 833, Prince Mojmír of the neighbouring principality of Moravia expelled Pribina and added Nitra to his dominions.
In 838-839, Pribina acquired property around Lake Balaton as a fief of the Frankish Empire, created an extensive principality and did much to spread Christianity in the area.
Nitra Castle is depicted on the reverse. It bears witness to the rich past of the town of Nitra, from early times a uniquely important strategic place and the natural centre of a very fertile region. The design repeatedly overlaps with part of a 9th century bead necklace with a broze moon-shaped pendant from the archaeological site of Nitra–Lupka.

50 SK

The obverse side is devoted to the bringers of Christianity to the Slavs: Saints Constantine – Cyril (827-869) and Methodius (814-885). The Byzantine Emperor Michael III sent them to Great Moravia at the request of Prince Rastislav, who desired to establish a separate ecclesiastical organization in his principality and to ensure the spreading of Christianity in a language comprehensible to the people. Constantine had already created a Slavonic alphabet and translated the most essential liturgical text into Old Slavonic before their arrival. The two brothers developed multifaceted activities in the fields of religious teaching, organization and culture. They established a school for training priests, which became a centre of culture, education and literature. In 868, they gained the approval of Pope Hadrian II for the Slavonic liturgy, and the Old Slavonic language was placed on the same level as the established cultural languages: Latin, Greek and Hebrew. After Constanine‘s death, Methodius continued his missionary activity. He was consecrated as a bishop by the Pope and later appointed an archbishop. Until the end of his life he was head of a Great Moravian provincial diocese.
The reverse side bears the motif of two hands with the first seven letters of the Old Slavonic Glagolitic alphabet between them as a symbol of the gift of the saints to the Old Slavs and the silhouette of the medieval church at Dražovce as a symbol of early Christianity on our territory.

100 Sk

A portrait of the Madonna based on a gothic sculpture from the Altar of the Nativity in the parish church of St. James at Levoča appears on the obverse. The altar was made by Master Paul of Levoča (about 1470-1540), the most important representative of Late Gothic sculpture in Slovakia. The sculpture of the Virgin Mary in the group „Adoration of the Child“ is his early work, created about 1500 AD. The Madonna‘s face, subtle and idealised, is delicately featured with a dreamy look ang long wavy hair. Master Paul established and headed his own woodcarving workshop at Levoča, and employed several important carves. The workshop produced sculptures found in various churches in eastern Slovakia and at Banská Bystrica. His most important work is the main altar of the parish church of St. James at Levoča. With a height of 18.62 m, it is the tallest original Gothic winged-altar in the World.
The dominant architectural features of the town of Levoča – the Gothic church of St. James and the Renaissance town hall are depicted on the reverse. They overlap with a vault of the sacristy of the old Franciscan Church of Levoča.

200 Sk

The motif on the obverse side is a portrait of the priest and linguist Anton Bernolák (1762-1813), one of the leading representatives of the Slovak national revival and a supporter of the Enlightenment. He gained a place in Slovak history as the first codifier of standard written Slovak – the so-called „Bernolákovčina“ based on cultured western Slovak. His main codification work: Dissertatio Philologico-Critica de Literis Slavorum was published in 1797. His linguistic activity culminated in a large Slovak – Czech – Latin – German – Hungarian Dictionary, which was his life‘s work. Although Bernolák‘s version was not accepted as the standard written language, it represents an important milestone on the route to the formation of the modern Slovak nation. He was the instigator of the literary publication society, the Slovenské účené tovarišstvo (Slovak Learned Society), which distributed educational Books in the new codified Slovak among the Slovak public, and of the movement carried on by his successors, which lasted theree generations.
The reverse bears a view of Trnava in the 18th century, with a present-day view of the symbol of the town – the Renaissance town tower – placed in the foreground.

500 Sk

The politican and linguist Ľudovít Štúr (1815-1856), one of the most important representatieves of the Slovak nation in the 19th century appears on the obverse. He was the leading personality among the nationally conscious youth, who later played an important part in applying the programme of Slovak national identity under his leadership. In 1843, together with Michal Milolav Hodža and Jozef Miloslav Hurban, he established a new standard written language for the Slovaks based on central Slovak dialects. It became an integrating factor in the creation of modern Slovak national and civil society. He founded the Slovenskje Národňje Novini (Slovak National Newspaper), the first Slovak political newspaper. In 1848, he presided over an assembly of Slovak patriots at Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš, where the Demands of the Slovak nation were declared. The Slovaks demanded federalization and democratization of the Kingdom of Hungary and autonomy for Slovakia. He was one of the organizers and participants in the Slovak Uprising of 1848-1849, the first armed campaign by the Slovaks for recognition of their national identity, and for civil rights and freedoms. The reverse bears an image of Bratislava Castle with the Baroque church of St. Nicholas and part of the tower of the Gothic Klarisky Church. The oldest plan of Bratislava – a 15th century wood engraving from Chronica Picta – is placed in the centre.

1000 Sk

A portrait of the Christian politican Andrej Hlinka (1864-1938) is placed on the obverse. He was an important personality in modern Slovak history, who significantly influenced the development of national consciousness and socio-political movement in Slovakia. As a member of the leadership of the Slovak National Party and from 1913 as leader of the Slovenská ľudová strana (Slovak People´s Party), he severely criticized the social and nationality policy of the Hungarian government. In the revolutionary months of 1918, he whole-heartedly suported the origin of a Czechoslovak state and secession from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. However, after the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic he criticizet the disappearance of Slovak representative institutions and the failure to solve the constitutional position of Slovkaia in the joint republic. The demand for Slovak autonomy had the first place in the party programmes he promoted as a member of parliament. Thanks to its national and Christian orientation, his party became the largest in Slovakia.
The central motif on the reverse is the Madonna Protector form a medieval wall painting in the Roman Catholic Church at Liptovské Sliače near Ružomberok. A picture of the Roman Catholic church of St. Andrew at Ružomberok and the mausoleum of A. Hlinka in the same town fill the left part.

5000 Sk

The obverse is devoted to Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1919), politician, diplomat, astronomer and one of the creators of the Czechoslovak Republic. He worked as an astronomer in France and after the outbreak of the First World War, he became a pilot in the French Army, in which he achieved the rank of general. He was one of the leading representatives of the Czecho-Slovak exile struggle for the break up of Austria – Hungary and the creation of an independent state for the Czechs and Slovaks. In 1915, he began to cooperate with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš. They jointly established the Czecho-Slovak National Council in Paris. With the authorization of the French government, he organized the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia, Italy and the USA in the years 1916-1918. When the independent Czechoslovak Republic was established in October 1918, Štefánik became minister for war in the first Czechoslovak government. In January 1919, he returned to Paris, where he participated in the peace talks. Upon his return to Slovakia, he died tragically in a plane crash. Štefánik‘s portrait is supplemented by artistic elements depicting the Sun, a half-Moon and a comet, which recall that he devoted a significant part of his life to research and observation in astronomy.
The monument over the grave of Štefánik on Bradlo hill is the main design on ghe reverse. It is overprinted with a part of the constellation of the Great bear and pasqueflowers.