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10 Korun 10 Years - Liberation
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1955 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A Soviet soldier kneels in the center of the field, rendered in high relief in a compassionate pose, cradling a young child in his arms as a symbol of liberation and protection. The composition conveys a strong propagandistic sentiment consistent with commemorative coinage of the socialist period. The liberation date '9.5. 1945' and the commemorative year '1955' flank the central motif, with the denomination '10' also inscribed in the field. The engraver's initials 'F.D.' appear in the lower portion of the reverse. |
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Issued to mark the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakia's liberation by Soviet forces in May 1945, this coin appeared during a period when the Czechoslovak state was firmly consolidating its Communist political identity under Antonín Zápotocký. The anniversary itself was a heavily choreographed propaganda moment — Soviet liberation was the founding myth of postwar Czechoslovak statehood, and coinage was a natural vehicle for reinforcing it.
The .500 fineness reflects postwar silver economics across the Eastern Bloc, where full silver coinage had become fiscally untenable by the mid-1950s.