Catalog
1 Koruna - Trial Strike
| Issuer | Czechoslovak State Mint |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a female figure, rendered in a naturalistic Art Nouveau-influenced style, kneeling or crouching amid a sheaf of wheat or grain stalks held in her raised arms, symbolizing agricultural prosperity. The large numeral 1 appears to the left of the figure in the field, denoting the denomination. The engraver's signature O. ŠPANIEL appears in the lower portion of the field. The overall composition reflects Španiel's characteristic sculptural approach to coin design. |
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The Czechoslovak State Mint was established in Kremnica in 1921, inheriting both the infrastructure and workforce of the former Austro-Hungarian imperial mint that had operated there since 1328. The new republic needed coinage fast — it had been issuing provisional stamps-on-banknotes since 1919 — and the Kremnica facility ran multiple parallel trials in competing compositions before final types were approved. This zinc-plated silver-copper trial is one of those exploratory strikes, produced to test plating adhesion and striking characteristics before the production alloy was committed.
KM# Pn10 pieces were never released to circulation and survive in very small numbers.