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100 Greatest Modern World Coins Series: Czechoslovakia 1937 Gold 10 Dukatu

Art meets numismatics with this highly stylized trade coin featured today as part of our blog series covering the 100 Greatest Modern World Coins from Whitman Publishing. Stemming from a post-war, newly formed nation, authors Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker guide us along in detail with this coin that came together from a collaboration of distinguished artists. Let’s get to it.

#73 – Czechoslovakia 1937 Gold 10 Dukatu

After the First World War, there we nine new nations formed, and the first Czechoslovak Republic was one of them. The 10 dukatu was used as a gold trade coin issued by this brand new nation between 1929 and 1938, and then again in 1951. Perhaps the most important and unique thing about this large trade coin was its design and the collaborators that came together for it.

A professional artist and professor at an art school in Prague, Jaroslav Benda was an...read more