Description:

Obverse

The coin’s obverse design, symbolising the beginnings of Christianity in what is now Slovakia, shows an image from a plaquette found in an archaeological excavation at Bojná in western Slovakia. This is superimposed on a Greek cross, the arms of which are visible between the image and the coin edges and are filled with letters from the Glagolitic alphabet. Slovakia’s coat of arms appears in the lower left, above year of issuance ‘2018’. Next to the lower-right edge of the design, in semi-circle, is the name of the issuing country ‘SLOVENSKO’. At the top, across the upper arm of the cross, is the coin’s denomination and currency ’10 EURO’. At the bottom, to the left of the lower arm of the cross, are the mint mark of the Kremnica Mint (consisting of the initials ‘MK’ between two dies) and the stylised letters ‘RL’, the initials of the coin’s designer, Roman Lugár.

Reverse

The reverse depicts Cyril and Methodius below the arms of a crucifix. These elements are set against a circle in which Glagolitic letters are interspersed. In semi-circle along the edge of the design, from the lower left to the lower right, is the inscription ‘UZNANIE SLOVANSKÉHO LITURGICKÉHO JAZYKA’ (‘Recognition of the Slavonic liturgical language’). The year ‘868’ appears at the bottom, below the crucifix.