By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. Link to Part I When King Andrew III, last survivor of Hungary’s Árpád dynasty, died without an heir in 1301, succession to the throne was disputed by royal relatives. The subsequent history of Hungary often set foreign-born kings on a shaky throne. Twelve-year-old Wenceslaus III of Bohemia[1], betrothed to […]
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The National Bank of Slovakia has issued new silver Proof collector coins which are in celebration of the centenary anniversary of the country’s first performance theatre. Established in 1920, the Slovak National Theatre (SND) played an essential role in supporting the objectives of the-then Czechoslovak Republic, formed in 1918
The Bank of Estonia has announced that they have ordered 10 million one-cent coins from the Kremnica Mint in Slovakia to meet the needs of merchants for low-value euro-cent coins to use with cash payments in the years ahead. As Estonians readily circulate five-cent coins and larger denominations routinely, the bank deems there are sufficient quantities of the other six denominations to meet the demands of the public
The Bank of Estonia has announced that they have ordered 10 million one-cent coins from the Kremnica Mint in Slovakia to meet the needs of merchants for low-value euro-cent coins to use with cash payments in the years ahead. As Estonians readily circulate five-cent coins and larger denominations routinely, the bank deems there are sufficient quantities of the other six denominations to meet the demands of the public
The National Bank of Slovakia has issued (9th January) new collector coins which are in celebration of Slovakia’s 10th anniversary of the adoption of the single European currency, the euro, on the 1st January 2009. Upon the adoption of the euro, Slovakians had seen their third change in currency since the government of Czechoslovakia re-established democratic rule in the country following the collapse of communism
The National Bank of Slovakia has issued (9th January) new collector coins which are in celebration of Slovakia’s 10th anniversary of the adoption of the single European currency, the euro, on the 1st January 2009. Upon the adoption of the euro, Slovakians had seen their third change in currency since the government of Czechoslovakia re-established democratic rule in the country following the collapse of communism
The National Bank of Slovakia has issued (9th August) new commemorative coins which are minted in remembrance of one of former Czechoslovakia’s most pivotal events in their history as a modern nation — the time when Czechoslovaks attempted to reclaim their own nation from Soviet influence. The events of August 1968 were eerily similar to the historical changes which occurred in 1990 with the collapse of the communist government and the emergence of parliamentary elections
The National Bank of Slovakia have issued (3rd January) a new silver collector coin in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Slovak Republic, which emerged after the separation of the Czech and Slovak Republics as a single entity on the 1st January 1993.
The process by which the Slovaks became a modern European nation culminated on this day 25 years ago with the establishment of an independent state — the Slovak Republic
By Dariusz F. Jasek ….. As edited by Etjen Vincani Siege coins appear in Polish numismatic history twice: during the siege of Gdańsk (known in German as Danzig) in 1577 and during the siege of Zamość in 1813. In the former case, the gold and silver coins were produced by the city mint. Among these […]
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The National Bank of Slovakia have issued (20th September) a new coin which remembers one of the country’s leading exponents in the late realism style in Slovak literature on the 150th anniversary of her birth. Božena Slančíková-Timrava (1867 – 1951) typically featured rural workers, the rural intelligentsia, and groups promoting Slovak national interests in her stories
The National Bank of Slovakia have issued (20th September) a new coin which remembers one of the country’s leading exponents in the late realism style in Slovak literature on the 150th anniversary of her birth. Božena Slančíková-Timrava (1867 – 1951) typically featured rural workers, the rural intelligentsia, and groups promoting Slovak national interests in her stories
The National Bank of Slovakia has issued (July 1) a new coin highlighting the country’s assumption of the rotating European Union presidency of the Council of Ministers, marking the first time the country has held the position since it joined the E.U
The National Bank of Slovakia have issued a new coin which features the primeval beech forests of the Carpathians, one of the country’s natural attractions which are a cross-border habitat and also included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The Carpathian primeval beech forests are a chain of enclaves of undisturbed forests and primeval forests constituting a beech gene bank of global importance
The National Bank of Slovakia have issued a new gold collector coin which highlights the reign and subsequent coronation of Prince Rastislav of Great Moravia. Considered as one of the most historically eminent figures of Great Moravia (part of present-day Czech Republic) was its ruler, Rastislav (ruled 846-870)
The National Bank of Slovakia have issued a new commemorative 2 Euro coin which marks a very important moment in the country’s history – that of its accession into the European Union on the 1st May 2004.
Slovakia, along with eight Central and Eastern European countries including the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia – all former communist countries as well as three countries who re-established independence from the former USSR, took part in accession ceremonies held at the official residence of the President of Ireland