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20 Korún - Jozef Tiso
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA 20 Ks |
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| Mintage | 2002 - numbered test mints - 20 |
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This piece commemorates Jozef Tiso, the Catholic priest who served as president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945 — a Nazi client state whose government actively collaborated in the deportation of over 70,000 Slovak Jews to German extermination camps. Tiso was executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Bratislava in April 1947.
Its 2002 issue by the Slovak Mint provoked immediate controversy, as critics argued the state was effectively commemorating a convicted war criminal. The edition was not withdrawn.