1937 CZECHOSLOVAKIA President Masaryk VINTAGE Silver 20 Korun Coin NGC I105788

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Item:<br>i105788<br>Authentic Coin of:<br>Czechoslovakia - Death of President Masaryk<br>1937<br>Silver 20 Korun 34mm (<br>12.00<br>grams) 0.700 Silver (0.2701 oz. ASW)<br>Reference: KM# 18<br>Certification:<br>NGC<br>MS 65 2863617-008<br>REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ 20 Kč J H, State Coat-of-arms.<br>T٠G٠MASARYK 1850-1937 O·Š, President Tomas G. Masaryk facing right.<br>Edge Lettering: ~x~<br>You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity.<br>Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk<br>(Czech: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈɡarɪk ˈmasarɪk]), sometimes anglicised to<br>Thomas Masaryk<br>(7 March 1850 - 14 September 1937), was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher.<br>Until 1914 he advocated reforming the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a federal state. With the help of the Allied Powers, he eventually succeeded in gaining the independence of a Czechoslovak republic as World War I ended in 1918. He founded Czechoslovakia and served as its first President, and so is called the "President Liberator" (Czech:<br>Prezident osvoboditel<br>).<br>Masaryk was born to a poor working-class family in the predominantly Catholic city of Hodonín, Moravia (in the region of Moravian Slovakia, today in the Czech Republic but then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.) Another tradition claims the nearby Slovak village of Kopčany, the home of his father, as his birthplace. He subsequently grew up in the village of Čejkovice, in South Moravia, before he moved to Brno to study.<br>His father Jozef Masárik, born in Kopčany in Slovakia (then the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary), was a carter and later the steward and coachman at the Imperial Estate of nearby Hodonín. Tomáš's mother, Teresie Masaryková (née Kropáčková), was a Moravian of Slavic origin but German education. She worked as a cook at the Estate where she met Masárik, and they married on 15 August 1849.<br>With the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Allies recognized Masaryk as head of the Provisional Czechoslovak government (on October 14), and on November 14, 1918, he was elected President of the Czechoslovak Republic by the National Assembly in Prague while he was in New York. He came back to Prague Castle on December 21, 1918.<br>Masaryk was re-elected as president three times: in May 1920, 1927, and 1934. A provision in the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920 exempted him from the two-term limit. He visited many countries like France, Belgium, England, Egypt and the Mandate for Palestine in 1923 and 1927. With Herbert Clark Hoover, he guaranteed the 1. PIMCO - First Prague International Management Congress, organized Masaryks Academy of Labour and 120 experts around the world in Prague in July 1924. In March 1930, the National Assembly approved the law: "T.G. Masaryk, he deserved on the State" (law No.22/1930 Sb., from March 6, Czech: "T.G. Masaryk, zasloužil se o stát"). After the rise of Hitler, he was one of the first political figures in Europe to voice concern. He resigned from office on December 14, 1935 on the grounds of old age and poor health, and Edvard Beneš succeeded him.<br>On paper, Masaryk's powers as president were limited; the framers of the constitution intended for the Prime Minister and Cabinet to hold the real power. However, he provided a considerable measure of stability in the face of frequent changes of government (there were ten cabinets headed by nine Prime Ministers during his tenure). The stability that he ensured, as well as his great prestige both inside and outside the country, made Masaryk enjoy almost-legendary authority by the people. He used his authority to create an extensive informal political network called<br>Hrad<br>(the Castle). Under his watch, Czechoslovakia became the strongest democracy in central Europe.<br>Masaryk died less than two years after leaving office, at the age of 87, in Lány, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic. He died before the Munich Agreement and the Nazi occupation of his country. He was known as "The Great Old Man of Europe". Commemorations of Masaryk, state institutions and democratic societies have taken place annually in Lány cemetery on March 7 and September 14, since 1989.<br>Masaryk wrote several books, including<br>The Czech Question<br>(1895),<br>The Problems of Small Nations in the European Crisis<br>(1915),<br>The New Europe&