Silver investment coin worth 10 euros Milan Rastislav Štefánik - 100th anniversary of death

Coin Details

Author: obverse: Mária Poldaufová, reverse: akad. sculpture. Ivan Řehák

Material: Ag 900, Cu 100

Weight: 18 g

Diameter: 34 mm

Hrana: AN IMPORTANT PERSONALITY OF THE SLOVAK NATION

Manufacturer: Kremnica Mint

Engraver: Dalibor Schmidt

Cargo:

3,650 units in the regular version

in a proof version of 10,000

Emission: 25/04/2019

Silver investment collector coin worth 10 euros Milan Rastislav Štefánik - 100th anniversary of death

Milan Rastislav Štefánik (21 July 1880 – 4 May 1919), scientist, military pilot, diplomat and Minister of War of the Czechoslovak Republic, is one of the most important figures in Slovak history. He worked as an astronomer at the observatory in Meudon near Paris, from where he carried out many scientific expeditions. In 1912, he obtained French citizenship. At the beginning of the First World War, he was mobilized and in 1915, at his own request, he was enrolled in an aviation school. As a pilot, he made reconnaissance and fighter flights and was a pioneer of military meteorology. In June 1918, he was promoted to brigadier general from the title of mission to the Czechoslovak army, the creation of which he was responsible for. He also achieved success as a diplomat. He informed about the difficult situation of Slovaks in Hungary and recruited foreign statesmen for the idea of ​​a joint state of Czechs and Slovaks. Together with Tomáš Garrigu Masaryk and Edvard Beneš, he led the Czechoslovak foreign resistance and contributed to the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic.

Obverse:

On the obverse of the collector's euro coin, as a symbol of the state-building activities of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, a Czech lion with a crown on its head and a Slovak emblem on its chest is depicted from the small national coat of arms of the Czechoslovak Republic in a composition with a map of the Czechoslovak Republic . In the right part of the coin field is the national coat of arms of the Slovak Republic, above which there is a marking of the nominal value of the collector's euro coin "10 EURO" in two lines. The name of the country "SLOVAKIA" is in the description near the upper edge of the collector's euro coin. Below it is the year "2019". At the lower edge of the collector's euro coin, the inscription "BELIEVE • LOVE • WORK" is written in the description. The mark of Mincovne Kremnica, a state-owned enterprise, consisting of the abbreviation "MK" placed between two stamps, and the stylized initials of the author of the obverse side of the collector's euro coin Mária Poldaufová "MP" are below the composition.

Reverse side:

A portrait of Milan Rastislav Štefánik is depicted on the reverse side of the collector's euro coin, in the right part of the coin field, supplemented by a Caproni biplane, on which Milan Rastislav Štefánik died in 1919. In the upper part of the coin field, the dates of his birth "1880" and death "1919" are in the description, separated by a dot. In the left part of the coin field, the names "MILAN RASTISLAV" are in the description and the surname "ŠTEFÁNIK" is below the portrait. Stylized initials of the author of the reverse side of the collector's euro coin akad. sculpture. Ivan Řehák "IŘ" are at the right edge of the collector's euro coin.