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100 Korun Charles University
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Engraver(s) | Otakar Španiel |
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| Reverse lettering | ŠEST SET LET UNIVERSITY KARLOVY 1348 O·ŠPANIEL 100 (Translation: Six hundred years of Charles University 1348 O·ŠPANIEL 100) |
| Edge | Plain with ornamental waves and stars |
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Issued to mark the 600th anniversary of Charles University in Prague, founded by Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV in 1348 — making it the oldest university in Central Europe. The timing of this coin is quietly significant: 1948 was the year the Czechoslovak Communist Party seized power in the February coup, and state-sanctioned cultural commemoration immediately became a tool of the new regime. This piece sits at that precise hinge point, struck just as the old republic was extinguished.