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200 Korún Ján Smrek
| Issuer | Národná banka Slovenska |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Reverse description | Portrait of Ján Smrek (born Ján Čietek, 1898–1982), the renowned Slovak lyric poet and editor, depicted in a stylized relief bust facing left or three-quarters. His name JÁN SMREK is inscribed prominently in the field, with the birth and death years 1898 and 1982 flanking the portrait. The composition reflects a modernist medallic aesthetic consistent with Slovak commemorative coinage of the period. A facsimile signature or cursive inscription may appear beneath the portrait, referencing the poet's literary identity. |
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| Reverse lettering | JÁN SMREK 1898 1982 |
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Ján Smrek — pen name of Ján Čietek — was the leading voice of Slovak interwar vitalism, a literary movement that pushed back hard against the ruralist sentimentalism dominating Slovak poetry in the early twentieth century. This 1998 issue marks the centenary of his birth. Slovakia had only re-established its independent central bank five years earlier following the Velvet Divorce, and the commemorative silver program of the mid-to-late 1990s was in part a deliberate project of national cultural identity-building through coinage.