The twenty-crown coin: mintages and varieties

The twenty-crown coin since 1993

The 1993-type twenty-crown coin has circulated since 12 May 1993. The thirteen-sided coin by sculptor Vladimír Oppl bears the Czech lion on the obverse and the equestrian figure of St Wenceslas, after the monument on Wenceslas Square, on the reverse. Since 1997, proof-quality strikes have also been made exclusively for annual coin sets.

Technical parameters

Mint errors — the most valuable twenty-crowns

The true rarities among twenty-crown coins were created not by low mintage but by error. Both known cases date from the first years of striking and appear on the market only exceptionally.

Mintages by year, per the Czech National Bank

Most years were struck in millions, and such coins are worth their face value regardless of age. The years in the tens of thousands were struck for collector sets rather than circulation, so they do not turn up in your change — whoever holds one received it with a set.

The question we are asked most often about twenty-crowns concerns the year 2000 and the millennium variant with the clockwork motif. It is not rare: the 2000 year exceeds 15 million pieces. More on the millennium strikes with the astronomical clock

Commemorative circulation types 2018 and 2019

For the republic's centenary, the Czech National Bank issued six commemorative twenty-crowns in 2018–2019: types portraying T. G. Masaryk, M. R. Štefánik and Edvard Beneš (2018), and Alois Rašín, Vilém Pospíšil and Karel Engliš (2019). Each type was struck in 200,000 pieces and reached ordinary circulation only in limited numbers — the bank exchanged at most three pieces per type per person.

Twenty-crown coins at AUREA

We keep individual years and the commemorative types in stock, including uncirculated pieces that cannot be found in change. If you are selling a twenty-crown instead, get in touch — we assess a suspected mint error free of charge.

• Coins of the Czech Republic in our shop
• Coin and medal price guide 2027 — mintages and market prices for every year
• Coin buy-back — free appraisal

Other circulating coins and their years

The same logic — mintage, condition, a documented variety — governs the other Czech circulating denominations. For some of them the gap between an ordinary and a sought-after piece is far wider than it is for the twenty-crown.

• The fifty-crown — the low-mintage years 1998, 2000 and 2001
• The 1993 ten-crown “small Kč” — a trial strike from Hamburg
• The 2000 millennium strikes with the astronomical clock
• Heller coins 1921–2008 — eight denominations and their mintages
• Overview of rare Czech and Czechoslovak coins

Where to safely appraise or sell your twenty-crown coin

If you have a twenty-crown coin with a suspicious legend, a plain edge or a low-mintage year, send us photographs of both the obverse and reverse. We will assess the authenticity of a mint error free of charge and tell you whether the piece belongs in an auction or back in circulation.