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50 Korun Death of J.V.Myslbek
| Issuer | Státní banka československá |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Composition | Silver (.700) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold, finely modelled left-facing portrait bust of Josef Václav Myslbek, the renowned Czech sculptor, rendered in high relief and occupying the majority of the coin's field. The name J.V.MYSLBEK is inscribed vertically along the left margin in Latin characters. The commemorative dates 1922 · 1972, denoting the fiftieth anniversary of his death, appear vertically along the right margin. The field is otherwise plain, allowing the sculptural portrait to dominate the composition in a manner befitting Myslbek's legacy as a master of plastic art. |
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Josef Václav Myslbek died in 1922, making this a fiftieth-anniversary commemorative issue. He is best known for the equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslas in Prague's Wenceslas Square, a work that took him nearly three decades to complete and was not fully unveiled until 1913. The Czechoslovak state repeatedly returned to Myslbek as a subject for commemorative coinage — his standing in Czech cultural identity was never seriously contested, even under socialist cultural policy, which made him a safe and recurring choice for the series.