500 Korun Washington Declaration

500 Korun (Washington Declaration) - obverse500 Korun (Washington Declaration) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Czech Republic
Period Republic (1993-date)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2018
Value 500 Korun
500 CZK = USD 21
Currency Koruna (1993-date)
Composition Silver (.925)
Weight 25 g
Diameter 40 mm
Thickness 2.9 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
154988
References KM# 182
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

100th Anniversary of the Washington Declaration

Obverse

Coat of arms of Czechoslovak Republik, value, country name

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ČM
500 KČ • ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA
ZDAR, ZDAR, ZDAR NAŠÍ SAMOSTATNOSTI CZECHOSLOVAKS!

Engraver: Jakub Orava

Reverse

Washington palace, declaration text behind, names of signatories, victory monument, text

Script: Latin

Lettering:
V
WASHINGTONSKÁ DEKLARACE 1918-2018
O
M.R.ŠTEFÁNIK
E.BENEŠ
TOMÁŠ GARRIGUE MASARYK

Engraver: Jakub Orava

Edge

Two types of edge exist: milled and plain with engraved lettering

Lettering: ČESKÁ NÁRODNÍ BANKA * Ag 0.925 * 25 g *

Translation: CZECH NATIONAL BANK * Ag 0.925 * 25 g *

Mint

Czech Mint (Česká mincovna), Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic (1993-date)

Comments

Czechoslovak declaration of independence (from Wikipedia) to announce and explain separation of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary.
The Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence or the Washington Declaration was drafted in Washington, D.C. and published by Czechoslovakia's Paris-based Provisional Government on 18 October 1918. The creation of the document was prompted by the imminent collapse of the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire, of which the Czech and Slovak lands had been part for almost 400 years, following the First World War.
In the autumn of 1918, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was collapsing. As one of his Fourteen Points, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson demanded that the nationalities of the empire have the "freest opportunity to autonomous development". On 14 October 1918, Foreign Minister Baron István Burián von Rajecz asked for an armistice based on the Fourteen Points. In an apparent attempt to demonstrate good faith, Emperor Charles I issued a proclamation two days later which would have significantly altered the structure of the Austrian half of the monarchy. The Imperial Austria was to be transformed into a federal union composed of four parts—German, Czech, South Slav and Ukrainian (Galicia would be allowed to secede). Each of these was to be governed by a national council that would negotiate the future of the empire with Vienna, and Trieste was to receive a special status.
However, on that same day, a Czecho-Slovak provisional government joined the Allies. This provisional government had begun drafting a Declaration of Independence on 13 October and completed its task on 16 October. The document was drafted by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and American sculptor Gutzon Borglum. On 17 October, Masaryk presented it to the U.S. government and the president. It was published in Paris 18 October 1918 with authorship attributed to Masaryk.
On the same day, United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing replied that the Allies were now committed to the causes of the Czechs, Slovaks, and South Slavs. Therefore, Lansing said, autonomy for the nationalities – the tenth of the Fourteen Points – was no longer enough and Washington could not deal on the basis of the Fourteen Points any more. The Lansing note was, in effect, the death certificate of Austria-Hungary. The national councils had already begun acting more or less as provisional governments of independent countries. With defeat in the war imminent after the Italian offensive in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto on 24 October, Czech politicians peacefully took over command in Prague on 28 October (later declared the birthday of Czecho-Slovakia) and followed up in other major cities in the next few days. On 30 October, the Slovaks followed with the Martin Declaration and the Austro-Hungarian state was dissolved the next day.
The declaration document declares a Czecho-Slovak Republic with freedom of religion, speech, the press and the right of assembly and petition, separation of church from the state, universal suffrage, and equal rights for women. The declaration calls for a parliamentary political system with respect for rights of national minorities shall use equal rights. Social, economic, and land reform is announced along with the cancellation of aristocratic privileges. The declaration uses the term "Czechoslovak nation" (národ československý), which deviates from formulations Cleveland and Pittsburgh Agreements, which defined two separate Czech and Slovak nations. The declaration is signed Masaryk (as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (as Minister of National Defense) and Edvard Beneš (as Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Interior).

Date of issue 17-10-2018

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
2018 ČM 5 000 50% Milled edge
2018 ČM 9 700 $ 60 75% Plain edge with engraved lettering; Proof

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