Slovakia

2019

Commemorative coin

The 100th anniversary of the death of Milan Rastislav Štefánik

Official Journal of the European Union

The design features a portrait of Milan Rastislav Štefánik. To the left of the portrait are the dates of Štefánik’s birth ‘1880’ and death ‘1919’, one above the other. At the left side of the inner part of the coin, in semi-circle, are the name ‘MILAN RASTISLAV ŠTEFÁNIK’ and the name of the issuing country ‘SLOVENSKO’. The year of issuance ‘2019’ is between the portrait and the right side. Below the year are the stylised letters ‘PV’, the initials of the designer, Peter Valach, and below them is the mint mark of the Kremnica Mint (Mincovňa Kremnica), consisting of the letters ‘MK’ placed between two dies. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1919) was a Slovak astronomer and diplomat born in the Kingdom of Hungary, since 1912 also a French citizen and in 1915 a military pilot and officer of the Legion of Honour, general of the French army and the Czechoslovak legion and one of the founding fathers of the First Czechoslovak Republic. The coin, designed after a contemporary photograph, shows him in a French general's uniform.

Edge lettering

Designer