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2 Dukáty Trial Strike

Issuer Czechoslovakia
Year 1929
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Currency Ducat Trade Coinage
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Obverse description Central shield bearing the Bohemian double-tailed lion rampant to left, with the Slovak cross-on-hills escutcheon on the lion's chest, all within a beaded inner circle. The circular legend REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ arcs around the upper periphery, with the date 1929 divided across the lower field. The design is rendered in a bold, deeply struck relief characteristic of trial piece production.
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Reverse lettering NEDEJ·ZAHYNOUTI·NÁM·I·BUDOUCÍM
(Translation: Do not let us and future ones perish)
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Trial strikes of this denomination were produced as the Czechoslovak National Bank evaluated potential coinage designs in the late 1920s, a period when the young republic was still consolidating its monetary infrastructure after breaking from Austro-Hungarian currency arrangements following 1918. Most trials from this program never advanced to circulation, and nickel brass — relatively uncommon for Czechoslovak trials of this period — suggests this piece was testing alloy performance as much as design suitability.

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