Catalog
10 Korun Československých
| Issuer | TUZEX Podnik Zahraničního Obchodu, Prague |
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| Year | 1962-1969 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed on plain paper with a fine guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination numeral "10" appears in a cartouche at the top centre, above the large bold inscription "ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ" (purchase voucher). Below, the text specifies its validity for the purchase of export goods up to a value of Kčs 10, with a handwritten date field and a printed serial number in red at the upper portion; the issuer name "TUZEX" and "PODNIK ZAHRANIČNÍHO OBCHODU PRAHA" are printed at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 DATUM: ČÍSLO: ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ NA NÁKUP EXPORTNÍHO ZBOŽÍ DO HODNOTY Kčs 10,— (DESET Kčs) TENTO ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ PLATÍ 6 MĚSÍCŮ ODE DNE VYSTAVENÍ A JE NEPRODEJNÝ V ČSSR. TUZEX PODNIK ZAHRANIČNÍHO OBCHODU PRAHA |
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Tuzex was a state-run foreign currency network that allowed Czechoslovak citizens to purchase Western goods — electronics, clothing, alcohol, blue jeans — that were simply unavailable through normal retail channels. The bony, as Tuzex vouchers were colloquially known, were not legal tender and could not be obtained with ordinary crowns; they required hard foreign currency or official allocation, which immediately created a black market premium.
By the mid-1960s, acquiring bony through unofficial channels carried real legal risk, yet the trade flourished because the goods on the other side of the Tuzex counter were otherwise inaccessible to most Czechoslovaks. The voucher system was, in effect, a parallel economy operating under state sanction.