Otakar Španiel is a real concept in the world of numismatics. His first republican St. Wenceslas ducats are the most admired, followed by the crown coin from the Czech Mint set. This consists of two newly minted coins - one is made of authentic copper nickel and the other of precious gold.

The Czechoslovak Republic was built on the ruins of Austria-Hungary in 1918, but it had to wait for its own currency. The Czechoslovak crown was declared the currency of the new state by a 1919 law, and while Austria and Hungary had to switch to the shilling and the pengö after the catastrophic collapse of the modified Austro-Hungarian currency, the old currency's name survived in Czechoslovakia as the only successor state to the monarchy. At first, we had the Austro-Hungarian banknotes, then the provisional state notes, and then finally the coins - the twenty-haler, the fifty-haler and the crown. An art competition for the design of metallic banknotes, which was won by the phenomenal artist Otakar Španiel, was announced in 1919, but the preparation for minting took three years. The only Czechoslovak mint, which was located in Kremnica, Slovakia, was looted when the Hungarians left, so it did not have the necessary machines or materials. However, the wait until 1922 was worth it - the Czechoslovak crown whose initial mintage was 50 million copper dinicles, represented the absolute pinnacle of European coinage and significantly influenced subsequent generations of medal makers. While the obverse side presented a Czechoslovak heraldic lion, the reverse side bore a lime branch and "the image of a kneeling woman holding a sheaf of ears of corn with a sickle in her left hand and wiping the sweat from her brow with her right".

Both newly minted coins in the set are a faithful reconstruction of the original crown coins of Otakar Španiel. In order to avoid confusion with the first-republic originals, below the two-tailed lion you will find the small text R (as a replica) 2025.

The issue limit is only 125 sets.