100 Korun Ivan Olbracht

Ivan Olbracht — the pen name of Kamil Zeman — was a Czech communist writer whose 1933 novel Nikola Šuhaj loupežník brought the Carpathian Ruthenia region into mainstream Czech literary consciousness. The 1982 commemorative marks the centenary of his birth. Olbracht's politics made him an ideologically convenient subject for the Czechoslovak socialist state, which regularly used the commemorative coin program to honor figures whose careers could be framed within Marxist cultural heritage.

The .500 silver alloy used throughout this series was standard for Czechoslovak commemoratives of the period following the shift away from the higher-fineness issues of the 1960s.