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200 Korún Ján Kollár
| Issuer | Národná banka Slovenska |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Engraver(s) | Vojtech Pohanka |
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| Reverse description | A stylized, mask-like effigy of a human face occupies the center of the field, eyes closed in a serene, contemplative expression, rendered in a modernist artistic style with smooth, idealized features. Sweeping across the upper portion of the field, dynamic abstract forms suggesting wind-swept foliage or flowing drapery radiate outward from the head, creating a sense of poetic movement. Scattered dot and line motifs fill the surrounding field, evoking a lyrical, literary atmosphere befitting the honoree. The engraver's initials 'VP' appear discreetly in the upper right field. Along the lower arc, the legend 'JÁN KOLLÁR' is inscribed in large capital letters above the birth and death dates '1793 · 1852', with the Kremnica Mint mark appearing below. |
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| Mint | Kremnica Mint, Slovakia |
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Ján Kollár, the Slovak-born Pan-Slavic poet and theologian, spent most of his career in Pest and later Vienna — making him a somewhat awkward national symbol for a newly independent Slovak state. This coin was issued in 1993, the same year Czechoslovakia dissolved, and the choice of Kollár was deliberate: his 19th-century writings on Slavic cultural unity gave the fledgling republic an intellectual lineage to claim. The irony is that Kollár himself wrote primarily in Czech and spent almost no significant time in Slovak lands after his youth.