Slovenia

2020

Commemorative coin

The 500th anniversary of the birth of Adam Bohorič

Official Journal of the European Union

The design has at its core a multilingual slogan from the cover of Bohorič’s Latin – Slovenian grammar titled “Proste zimske urice”. The slogan in Slovenian, written in bohoričica (the type of writing named after Adam Bohorič), which is easily recognizable due to the use of a typical letter f, is positioned in the lower half of the coin’s core. Behind is the Slovenian slogan in Latin – presenting Bohorič’s contribution to the international academic sphere. At the top of the design, in semi-circle, is the inscription ‘ADAM BOHORIČ1520 / SLOVENIJA 2020’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

Adam Bohorič (≈1520-1598) from Reichenburg in Lower Styria (today Brestanica in Slovenia) studied at the Artistic Faculty of the Leucorea in Luther's city of Wittenberg as a student of Philipp Melanchthon. Active as a schoolmaster, author and philologist, he published the first Slovenian grammar in Latin in 1584, entitled "Arcticae horulae succisivae" (Free Winter Hours; Slovenian title: Proste zimske urice). The Bible verse it contains from Paul of Tarsus' Letter to the Romans, "Omnis lingua confitebitur Deo." (according to the Luther Bible: Let all tongues confess God) forms the motif of the commemorative coin, together with the Slovenian translation superimposed on it, "Vſaki jesik bode Boga ſposnal." in the alphabet named after the author, Bohoričica, common in Slovenian literature until the 19th century, with round ("s") and long s ("ſ").

Edge lettering

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