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5 Sokolů T. G. Masaryk
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 5 Sokolů |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, first President of the Czechoslovak Republic, rendered in high relief with finely detailed portraiture in a naturalistic style. The effigy occupies the majority of the field, with the subject depicted in civilian dress with a short beard. A circular legend surrounds the bust, reading '·TOMÁŠ·G·MASARYK·' along the upper arc and '·PRVNÍ·PRESIDENT REPUBLIKY·ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ·' along the lower arc, all in incuse Latin lettering. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The "5 Sokolů" denomination takes its name from the Sokol gymnastic movement, a pan-Slavic organization founded in Prague in 1862 that became deeply intertwined with Czech national identity during the Habsburg period. Masaryk himself was a committed supporter, and the newly independent Czechoslovak state leaned heavily on Sokol symbolism in its early coinage to signal cultural continuity with the resistance tradition rather than a clean break from the past.
The 1920 issue came while the country was still physically defining its borders following the Paris Peace Conference — Těšín was disputed with Poland, Slovakia remained administratively unsettled, and the currency itself had only been separated from the Austro-Hungarian krone the previous year.