HALÉŘ: COIN OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
20 haléřů, 1926: Czechoslovak Republic (First Republic)
20: denomination without indicating the name of the coin (traditionally for Czechoslovak coins of different years of issue: both for small coins with the denomination of haléř and for coins of the main monetary unit — koruna).
A sickle in a sheaf of wheat with a linden branch (linden as one of the national symbols is depicted in one form or another on most circulating coins of Czechoslovakia).
O · ŠPANIEL: microsign of Otakar Španiel — Czech sculptor and engraver.
Lesser coat of arms of Czechoslovakia: crowned lion with forked tail (Czechia). It bearing on the breast a shield with three hills (Slovakia); patriarchal cross erected on the middle, highest hill.
REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ: Czechoslovak Republic.
Kremnica Mint (Slovakia).
Mintage: 14.825.000.
- Copper-nickel: 20 mm - 3.32 g
- Reference price: 0.4$
COIN HALÉŘ — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1921-1992): Czechoslovak Republic + Czechoslovak Socialist Republic + Czech and Slovak Federative Republic — haléř = 1/100 koruna
- CZECHIA: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1940-1944) + Czech Republic (1992-…) — haléř = 1/100 koruna
HALÉŘ (plural: haléře / haléřů) as coin name. In medieval Europe, for several centuries, alongside the denar and the pfennig, the heller coin was extremely popular. As of the beginning of the 21st century, this coin ceased to exist, but its descendants — the Slovak halier and the Czech haléř — continued to be issued.
That is, haléř is a coin that got its name from heller as its ancient prototype (the spelling of the term "heller" in Czech).
