The UK’s Royal Mint has issued 26 new 10p coins, each featuring a design that is intended to reflect things that are quintessentially British. The 26 designs are one for each letter of the English alphabet. Test your friends as to what they think should appear for each letter – then test them at the end to see how many they remember.

This started me thinking about what would appear on a series of Czech coins. What would be quintessentially Czech? In the table below, I’ve listed the 10p coin designs, plus some ideas for what could appear on a Czech coin. I’ll then update the table with your ideas. I’m open to changing my Czech suggestions.

ABC	10p description	Czech equivalent
A	Angel of the North	Avia
Á	Not applicable
B	Bond… James Bond	Becherovka
C	Cricket	Cimrman
Č	Not applicable	Čočky
D	Double-Decker Bus	Dvořák
Ď	Not applicable
E	English Breakfast	Ema Destinnová
É	Not applicable	No Czech words begin with this?
Ě	Not applicable
F	Fish & Chips	Franz Kafka
G	Greenwich Mean Time	Golem
H	Houses of Parliament	Havel
Ch	Not applicable	Chata
I	Ice Cream	Igráček
Í	Not applicable
J	Jubilee	Ještěd
K	King Arthur	Karel IV Krtek
L	Loch Ness	Libuše
M	Mackintosh	Masaryk
N	National Health Service	Národní divadlo
Ň	Not applicable
O	Oak Tree	Orloj
P	Post Box	Pivo
Ó	Not applicable
Q	Queuing
R	Robin	Robot
Ř	Not applicable	Říp
S	Stonehenge	Semtex
Š	Not applicable	Škoda Auto Švejk
T	Teapot	Tatra
Ť	Not applicable
U	Union Flag	URNA (Útvaru rychlého nasazení)
Ú	Not applicable	Ústava
Ů	Not applicable	No Czech words begin with this
V	Villages	Vltava
W	World Wide Web	Werich
X	X – Marks the Spot
Y	Yeoman Warder
Ý	Not applicable
Z	Zebra Crossing	Zetor
Ž	Not applicable	Žižka

The letters Ě and Ů never occur in the beginning of any word.

The letters Q, W and X are used, I think, exclusively in foreign words.