| Description : Adam Bohorič (∼1520‐1598) from Reichenburg in
Lower Styria (today Brestanica in Slovenia) studied at the Artistic Faculty of the Leucorea in Luther's city of Wittenberg
as a student of Philipp Melanchthon. Active as a schoolmaster, author and philologist, he published the first Slovenian
grammar in Latin in 1584, with the title Arcticae horulae succisivae (Free Winter Hours; Slovenian title: Proste
zimske urice). The Bible verse it contains from Paul of Tarsus' Letter to the Romans, "Omnis lingua confitebitur Deo."
(Rom 14,11; according to the Luther Bible: Let all tongues confess God) forms the motif of the commemorative coin, together
with the Slovenian translation overlaying it, "Vſaki jesik bode Boga ſposnal." in the alphabet named after the
author, Bohoričica, common in Slovene literature until the 19th century, with round ("s") and
long s ("ſ"). On the left and above is written "ADAM BOHORIČ 1520 | SLOVENIJA 2020" (Slovenia 2020).
The coin was designed by Lana Semečnik and produced without a mint mark by the Italian mint Istituto
Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. |
