Slovakia 10 Euros, 2021

10 Euros from Slovakia. Issued in 2021. Struck in Silver (.900). Measures 34 mm and weighs 18 g.

Obverse

Obverse: The obverse depicts the climbers Ivan Fiala and Michal Orolín after reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat in 1971; they are holding an ice axe to which is attached the Czechoslovak flag, and Fiala is also hold¬ing the karabiner that he would leave on the summit. In the lower part of the design is the name of the is¬suing country ‘SLOVENSKO’. Inscribed below the left side of that name are the coin’s denomination ‘10’ and currency ‘EURO’, one above the other, and below the right side are the year of issuance ‘2021’ and the Slovak coat-of-arms, one next to the other. (SLOVAKIA
EURO
2021)

Reverse

The right side of the reverse design depicts the summit of Nanga Parbat. On the left side, in the foreground, there is the figure of a climber on a rock face. In the upper left quadrant is the name ‘NANGA PARBAT’, with the first part above the sec¬ond part. Inscribed above the mountain’s name is its height ‘8125 m’, and below the name is year ‘1971’, when the mountain was first summited by Slovak climbers. At the lower right edge are the stylised letters ‘MP’, referring to the coin’s designer Mária Poldaufová, and the mint mark of the Kremnica Mint (Mincovňa Kremnica), consisting of the let¬ters ‘MK’ placed between two dies. (8125 m
NANGA PARBAT
1971)