Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Koruna Československá
| Issuer | Tuzex Akciová Společnost, Prague |
|---|---|
| Year | 1969-1973 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Tuzex Koruna (1957-1992) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Green and cream rectangular voucher with a fine guilloche border framing the entire face. The large central inscription ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ is set in bold capital lettering beneath a top panel bearing the numeral 1 in an ornate cartouche. Below, the denomination is stated in Czech as Kčs 1,- (JEDNA Kčs), with an additional clause reading TENTO ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ JE NEPRODEJNÝ V ČSSR; the issuer name TUZEX and AKCIOVÁ SPOLEČNOST PRAHA appear at the foot. The date and serial number are printed in red at upper left and upper right respectively. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse bearing a single central guilloche rosette of intricate lathe-work in olive-gold tones, executed in fine intaglio-style line engraving; the surrounding field is otherwise unprinted, leaving the paper visible. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Tuzex was Czechoslovakia's state-run hard currency retail network — shops where citizens could buy Western goods unavailable through normal socialist distribution, but only by spending "bony," the non-convertible internal vouchers issued by Tuzex itself. This 1 Koruna note is one of those bony. The system was explicitly designed to siphon foreign currency remittances from Czechoslovaks abroad, converting hard currency into these scrip units before the state took its cut.
Printed by STC on the same presses that produced regular state currency, the bony carried enough visual authority to function as a parallel economy. Possession by ordinary citizens without a legitimate foreign income source was technically irregular, though by the 1970s a black market in bony was thoroughly entrenched.