50 Korun Vladimir Iljitsch Uljanow, Pattern

This pattern was struck in 1970 to mark the centenary of Lenin's birth — a politically mandatory occasion across the entire Eastern Bloc, with Czechoslovakia under particular pressure to perform ideological loyalty following the Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring just two years earlier. The Státní banka československá issued an approved circulation piece for the anniversary, making this silver pattern a design candidate that did not survive the selection process.

Pattern coinage from Czechoslovak state mints of this period rarely entered documented collections outside party or institutional channels.