500 Korun Jan Ámos Komenský

Issued in the final months of Czechoslovakia's existence before the Velvet Divorce took effect on January 1, 1993, this piece commemorates the 400th anniversary of Komenský's birth. The timing was almost certainly deliberate — Czech authorities were particularly invested in claiming Komenský as a national figure, given that his legacy would fall primarily to the Czech Republic rather than Slovakia after partition.

Komenský spent the last forty years of his life in exile, never returning to Moravia after the Habsburg reconquest following White Mountain in 1620.