Roll 2 euro 2021 Slovakia – 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Dubček

Alexander Dubček (1921–1992) was a Czechoslovak and Slovak politician who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) (de facto leader of Czechoslovakia) from January 1968 to April 1969. He attempted to reform the communist government during the Prague Spring but was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.

During his leadership, under the slogan “Socialism with a human face”, Czechoslovakia lifted censorship on the media and liberalized Czechoslovak society, fuelling the so-called New Wave in Czechoslovak filmography.

Later, after the Velvet revolution (the overthrow of the communist regime in 1989), he was Chairman of the federal Czechoslovak parliament. Also in 1989, the European Parliament awarded Dubček the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Denomination: 50 euro

Alloy: CuNi

Quality: UNC

Weight: 213g

Diameter: 25.75mm

Coin mintage: 1,000,000