20 Halier Pattern

Kremnica's 1991 pattern issues were produced as the Czechoslovak monetary system was being redesigned in anticipation of political and economic transformation following the Velvet Revolution. This aluminium piece was part of a broader series of trial strikings exploring denominations and materials for a coinage that would need to function under a reformed — and, as it turned out, soon-to-be-divided — state. Czechoslovakia split on 1 January 1993, meaning these patterns fed into two separate successor currencies simultaneously: the Czech koruna and the Slovak koruna.