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Minted in the Heart of Europe: Money and the Medallic Art in Czecho/Slovakia

12 August 2021

A collaboration with the department of numismatics at the National Museum of the Czech Republic, this display at the Münzkabinett in Dresden (14 August–19 April 2022) includes around 180 coins, banknotes and medals dating from 1918 – the year the republic of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed – to the present day. These objects are called upon to reflect key moments in the country’s history, from the German occupation in 1938 through to Soviet rule during the Cold War, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989, as well as the nation’s dissolution into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993 after the fall of the USSR. Find out more from the Münzkabinett’s website.

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Design for a coin (1920), engraved by Otakar Španiel.

Design for a coin (1920), engraved by Otakar Španiel. Photo: © National Museum, Abalon s.r.o, Prague

A 100-kroner note, issued in Czechoslovakia on October 1, 1989.

A 100-kroner note, issued in Czechoslovakia on October 1, 1989. Photo: © SKD, Münzkabinett

(2016), Marián Polonský.

Student (2016), Marián Polonský. Photo: © SKD, Münzkabinett

Czechoslovakia shall be free again (1939), Jan Mario Korbel.

Czechoslovakia shall be free again (1939), Jan Mario Korbel. Photo: © SKD, Münzkabinett

November 17, 1989 (2017), Josef Oplištil.

November 17, 1989 (2017), Josef Oplištil. Photo: © SKD, Münzkabinett