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title: 'Coins with Masaryk, Štefánik, and Beneš'
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date: '2018-10-24'
description: "The coin craze, seen by a passer-by The Czech National Bank issued coins to mark the anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. Their face value is 20 CZK — these aren't commemorative coins. You can use them as regular currency, or exchange them at any ČNB branch. In total there were 600,000 pi…"
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# The coin craze, seen by a passer-by

The Czech National Bank issued coins to mark the anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. Their face value is **20 CZK** — these aren't commemorative coins. You can use them as regular currency, or exchange them at any ČNB branch. In total there were 600,000 pieces — 200,000 of each type.

The mania — there's really no other word for it — played out every morning at pretty much every bank branch. People were **sitting** there waiting for it to open, then **standing** and waiting... and waiting. Rain or shine. They were **always there**. Until the coins ran out at the end of October.

Some people even tried selling them on aukro for over **100× face value**. I don't quite get who'd buy that — these won't gain value. There are so many of them in circulation that it was basically **throwing money away**.

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