St. Wenceslas ducats play an extraordinary role in the history of Czech coinage. The Czech Mint added a new gold three-ducat to them in 2024.

Finance Minister Alois Rašín and his colleagues were thinking about how to celebrate Czechoslovakia's 5th birthday in 1923. They decided to revive the historical tradition of minting Czech gold coins which dated back to the times of the monarchs John of Luxembourg and Charles IV, and thus the first republican St.Wenceslas ducats were produced. Their authors were the renowned artists Jaroslav Benda and Otakar Španiel. Alois Rašín, who was assassinated, had the eye-catching design of the coin depicting the patron saint of the Czech lands brought to the hospital, but he did not live to see it minted... The St. Wenceslas ducats were the so-called trade coins that preserved value, but they became popular as a gift for important events - for a cradle, for graduation or even for a wedding. It was not just the ducats that were minted, with a mandatory specification of 3.49 g of gold of 986/1000 purity - multiples of these coins were also minted in the form of two-ducats, five-ducats and ten-ducats. The new ducats minted by the Czech Mint are similar to them.

The obverse side of the gold three-ducat, which is the work of the medal maker Mgr. Petr Horák, is dominated by Wencleslas as a pious monarch and saint - with a cap and a halo. The texts on the obverse side state SV. VÁCLAV – 3‑DUKÁT – SVĚTEC (ST. WENCESLAS – 3-DUCAT-SAINT). The reverse side of the mintage is filled with a flaming eagle clutching the St. Wenceslas´ sword. The composition of the reverse side is supplemented with the year 2024 and the text of the famous old Czech chorale: SVATÝ VÁCLAVE, VÉVODO ČESKÉ ZEMĚ… NEDEJ ZAHYNOUTI NÁM I BUDOUCÍM (SAINT WENCESLAS, DUKE OF THE CZECH LAND, DO NOT LET US PERISH).

Each mintage is supplemented with a unique certificate covered with a layer of gold.