This piece was issued in the final weeks of Czechoslovakia as a unified state — the federation dissolved on January 1, 1993, making any coin struck in that terminal year a product of an issuer that no longer existed by the time most examples reached collectors. The Slovak Museum Society, founded in 1893, was marking its centennial; the commemorative program was already planned before the political split made the issuing authority itself an artifact.
This piece was issued in the final weeks of Czechoslovakia as a unified state — the federation dissolved on January 1, 1993, making any coin struck in that terminal year a product of an issuer that no longer existed by the time most examples reached collectors. The Slovak Museum Society, founded in 1893, was marking its centennial; the commemorative program was already planned before the political split made the issuing authority itself an artifact.