| Description : Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880‐1919) was a
Slovak astronomer and diplomat, born in the Kingdom of Hungary, became a French citizen in 1912 and a military pilot and
officer of the Legion of Honour, general of the French army and the Czechoslovak legions in 1915, and one of the founding
fathers of the First Czechoslovak Republic. The coin, which features a design based on contemporary photograph, shows him in a French
general's uniform. On the left are the semicircular words "SLOVENSKO" (Slovakia) and "MILAN RATISLAV ŠTEFÁNIK",
his year of birth "1880" and death "1919", and on the right the year of issue "2019", the abbreviated initials
"PV" of the coin designer Peter Valach and the mint mark "MK" between two embossing stamps of the Slovak mint
Mincovňa Kremnica š.p. in Kremnica. |