Slovakia 2 Euro "Ludovít Štúr" 2015
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• Special 2-euro coin in honor of the 200th birthday of the Slovak linguist Ludovít Štúr (1815-1856).
• Štúr was a forerunner in the development of various Slovak dialects into a standard language.
• The Slovaks had until then no language of their own: officially they spoke Czech.