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1 Koruna
| Issuer | Tuzex (Podnik zahraničního obchodu) |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Currency | Koruna (1953-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Cream and olive-yellow certificate with fine guilloche underprint throughout. A dark olive horizontal band at centre carries the large white letterpress title "ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ"; the numeral "1" appears in a dark cartouche at top centre. Issue date and red serial number are printed at upper left and upper right respectively, with the issuer name and value legend in black letterpress below. Printer's imprint "STC" at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 IV/1985 ČÍSLO: ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ PODNIKU ZAHRANIČNÍHO OBCHODU TUZEX V HODNOTĚ 1 KČS (JEDNA Kčs), který opravňuje jeho držitele uhradit kupní cenu zboží, prodávaného jménem podniku zahraničního obchodu TUZEX za devizové prostředky. STC |
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Tuzex was a state-run hard currency retail network operating in Czechoslovakia from 1957 onward, selling Western goods — electronics, alcohol, Levi's jeans — that were otherwise unobtainable through normal socialist commerce. These bony, as the vouchers were colloquially known, circulated in a legal grey zone: officially non-negotiable between private citizens, but in practice traded on an active black market at a significant premium over the official exchange rate.
By 1985, the parallel economy built around Tuzex vouchers had become an open embarrassment to the regime, which periodically redesigned them partly to disrupt black market accumulation.