10 Euros Nanga Parbat, Slovakia

The right side of the reverse design depicts the summit of Nanga Parbat. On the left side, in the foreground, there is the figure of a climber on a rock face. In the upper left quadrant is the name NANGA PARBAT, with the first part above the second part. Inscribed above the mountains name is its height 8125 m, and below the name is year 1971, when the mountain was first summited by Slovak climbers. At the lower right edge are the stylised letters MP, referring to the coins designer Mria Poldaufov, and the mint mark of the Kremnica Mint (Mincova Kremnica), consisting of the letters MK placed between two dies.

Dalibor Schmidt

Mária Poldaufová

Obverse: The obverse depicts the climbers Ivan Fiala and Michal Orolín after reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat in 1971; they are holding an ice axe to which is attached the Czechoslovak flag, and Fiala is also hold¬ing the karabiner that he would leave on the summit. In the lower part of the design is the name of the is¬suing country ‘SLOVENSKO’. Inscribed below the left side of that name are the coin’s denomination ‘10’ and currency ‘EURO’, one above the other, and below the right side are the year of issuance ‘2021’ and the Slovak coat-of-arms, one next to the other.

Dalibor Schmidt

Mária Poldaufová

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