The National Bank of the Czech Republic has launched (24th October) new gold commemorative crown coins which will be issued in celebration of the country’s centenary anniversary of independence, which was achieved in November 1918. In the wake of fierce fighting left by the Great War, the collapse of the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire led to the lands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia coming together to form the Republic of Czechoslovakia with the historic and age-old city of Prague as its capital