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10 Korun 10 Years - Liberation
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Currency | Koruna (1953-1992) |
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| Obverse description | The heraldic Czechoslovak double-tailed lion rampant occupies the central field, crowned and bearing on its chest a shield charged with the Slovak double cross on three hills. The beast is rendered in high relief with detailed mane and extended claws. The circumferential legend reads 'REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ' separated by a raised dot, arcing around the full periphery of the coin. The design is executed in a bold, socialist-realist heraldic style characteristic of mid-20th-century Czechoslovak coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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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.