Vladimír Oppl regularly participates in contests for coin and medal design announced by the Czech National Bank, prepares proposals for the Czech Mint, the Prague Mint, the National Treasury and foreign clients. He seeks his motives almost exclusively in the Czech history. His best-known designs include the Czech circulation coin with a nominal value of 20 crowns, a Czech 50-heller coin, a platinum medal Church of Sts. Vitus weighing half a kilogram or a set of gold and silver medals Codex Gigas and gold coins Czech Crown with a nominal value of 1000, 2500 and 5000 CZK. Among his most successful coin designs is the commemorative coin for the 650th anniversary of the founding of Prague's New Town by Charles IV. It was named the most beautiful gold coin for 1999 in the traditional competition organized by the US magazine for numismatics, "World Coin News" and the publisher "Krause Publications". In 1996 Oppl, the sculptor, re-recreated, together with Martin Ceplecha, the original Otakar Španiel's lion emblem from 1962. In August 1997 the granite copy was fitted under the statue of Jan Žižka at Vítkov National Monument. Vladimír Oppl is also the author of the prestigious Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Order in all classes. Since 2014, he has been working closely with the National Treasury, a distributor of commemorative coins and medals. Every year the Treasury publishes several of its own issues, the back and face of which are decorated with designs embossed according to Vladimír Oppl. His designs are characterized by a unique, easily recognizable handwriting. What is typical for author's work are the fine elaborate details and an often complicated but easy to read composition. The medalist seeks inspiration for his filigree work in unusual areas, for example in embroidery on medieval fabrics of royal robes. In 2014 and 2015 the National Treasury issued two medals, designed by Vladimír Oppl, stamped from 1 kg of pure silver. The first one was issued to commemorate the 670th anniversary of the founding of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. The second one paid tribute to the Father of the country - Charles IV, from whose imperial coronation 660 years have passed. Vladimír Oppl's motifs also decorate many National Treasury collections. Among the most popular are, for example, the collection of the Greatest Personalities of the Czech Nation, Life of Charles IV. or the golden collection Magic Prague, which commemorates the well-known Prague myths and legends. In August 2017, the medalist work with the Czech National Bank to honor the upcoming centennial anniversary of the birth of the Czechoslovak republic. For the edition "Important personalities of the Czechoslovak state" he designed three different reverse sides for the jubilee circulating twenty crowns. They featured portraits of the three Czech and Slovak founders: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edvard Beneš and Milan Rastislav Štefánik.. The ČNB had 3 x 200,000 coins minted and started their circulation on 24 October 2018.
In September 2017, the ČNB asked Vladimír Oppl to design the reverse sides of a new 3-piece set of jubilee circulation twenty crowns for the 2019 model. The edition entitled “Important personalities of the Czechoslovak currency” portraits the three most important Czech financiers from the period between WVI and WVII: Alois Rašín, Vilém Pospíšil and Karel Engliš. The ČNB had 3 x 200,000 coins minted and started their circulation on 30 January 2019.
On 31 January 2019 the ČNB introduced the second largest gold coin in the world as part of the 100th anniversary of the Czechoslovak crown inception celebrations. The coin was made from the bank's gold reserves and was designed by Vladimír Oppl. The nominal value of the gold coin is CZK 100 million.
