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500 Korun Matica Slovenská Institute
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 500 Korun (500 CSK) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A full-length figure of a woman dressed in traditional Slovak national costume stands facing, wearing a characteristic wide-brimmed bonnet and apron. She holds an open book under her left arm and raises a linden branch in her right hand, both emblems of Slovak cultural identity. The dates '1863' and '1988' appear to the right of the figure, commemorating the 125th anniversary of the founding of Matica Slovenská. The engraver's signature 'J. KULICH' is inscribed in the lower left field, and the legend 'MATICA SLOVENSKÁ' curves along the lower exergue in a decorative period-style typeface. |
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Matica slovenská — the Slovak cultural and literary institute founded in 1863 — was suppressed twice: first by the Hungarian authorities in 1875, then again by the Slovak fascist government in 1944 before being re-established after the war. This 1988 commemorative marks the 125th anniversary of its original founding. The timing is quietly ironic: a communist Czechoslovak state celebrating an institution whose core purpose was the preservation of Slovak national identity, the very kind of sentiment the regime spent decades trying to subordinate to federalist ideology.