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10 Euros Juraj Turzo
| Issuer | Národná banka Slovenska |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a three-quarter facing portrait bust of Juraj Turzo, the Hungarian nobleman and Palatine of Hungary, rendered in finely detailed relief. He is shown wearing period-appropriate attire including a broad-brimmed hat and richly ornamented collar. The inscription JURAJ TURZO flanks the portrait across the upper field, with the birth and death years 1567 and 1616 positioned to the upper left and upper right respectively. A heraldic lion rampant appears in the right field, and the denomination 10 EURO is inscribed in two lines at the lower centre of the field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Juraj Thurzo (1567–1616) served as Palatine of Hungary under Habsburg rule and was instrumental in the investigation of Erzsébet Báthory, the noblewoman tried in 1610–1611 for the torture and murder of hundreds of young women — one of the most extensively documented cases of serial killing in early modern Europe. Thurzo personally led the raid on Čachtice Castle in December 1610. Slovakia's commemorative program has consistently drawn on figures whose significance straddles Slovak and broader Central European history, and Thurzo, as a prominent Slovak-born magnate, fits that pattern precisely.