10 Korun

Czechoslovakia declared independence in October 1918 and almost immediately faced a serious monetary problem: the new state was flooded with Austro-Hungarian currency it had no control over. The solution, executed in February and March 1919, was a rapid stamping operation — existing Austro-Hungarian notes were overprinted with Czechoslovak stamps and temporarily retained as legal tender while the new government scrambled to establish its own issue. This 10 Korun note belongs to that transitional moment, when the newly formed republic was printing its first sovereign currency under considerable time pressure.

The unlisted Pick status reflects genuine cataloging uncertainty that still surrounds some of the earliest Czechoslovak emissions.