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10 Korun
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | TIZ KORONA OSZTRAK-MAGYAR BANK 10 HALER BÉCS, 1915 JANUAR 2-ÁN |
| Reverse description | The reverse of the underlying Austro-Hungarian 10 Kronen note, with the central vignette of a young boy's portrait set within an oval frame. The upper panel carries the German-language text of the Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank over a double-headed eagle emblem at upper left. A multilingual denomination panel at right renders the value in Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian, and other languages of the empire, alongside the serial number and anti-counterfeiting warning in German. |
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Czechoslovakia's first paper money series appeared almost immediately after the state itself — the republic was declared in October 1918, and these notes followed in 1919, issued under emergency conditions before a proper central bank existed. The provisional government was in a hurry: Austrian and Hungarian currency still circulated freely, and the new state needed something it could stamp as its own.
The notes were actually overprinted Austrian and Hungarian issues, then later replaced by properly printed Czechoslovak paper. P#1 sits at the very beginning of that scramble — monetary identity as an act of political urgency.