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1 Koruna

Issuer Czechoslovak Ministry of Finance
Year 1919
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Printer A. Haase, Prague
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Obverse lettering TATO STÁTOVKA VYDANÁ PODLE ZÁKONA ZE DNE 10. DUBNA 1919 Č. 187 SB. Z.A NAŘ. PLATÍ JEDNU KORUNU ČESKOSLOVENSKOU V PRAZE, DNE 15.DUBNA 1919 MINISTR FINANCÍ SERIE
(Translation: This statement issued under the Act of April 10, 1919 No. 187. Collections of laws and regulations applicable One Czechoslovak crown In Prague, on April 15, 1919 Minister of Finance)
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Variants P#6a - date 15.04. (Dubna) 1919
P#6x - error date: 05.04. (Dubna) 1919
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Alois Rašín designed the entire monetary framework that brought this note into existence. As the first Minister of Finance of the newly proclaimed Czechoslovak state, he orchestrated the currency separation from Austria-Hungary in February 1919 — a ten-day operation in which existing Austro-Hungarian banknotes were physically stamped and retained within Czechoslovak borders while the new state printed its own paper. This 1 Koruna was among the first issues to bear purely Czechoslovak authority rather than overprinted Habsburg stock.

A. Haase was a well-established Prague printing firm, already operating on Czech soil before independence — which made rapid domestic production feasible. Rašín was assassinated by an anarchist in January 1923, less than four years after signing these notes.

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