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10 Korún Slovenských
| Issuer | Slovenská Republika |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Value | 10 Korún |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Andrej Hlinka at right, set within a fine guilloche border frame with decorative corner ornaments. The central text panel bears the denomination in large letterpress lettering, with additional text noting issuance authority dated 23 May 1939 and the Bratislava date of 15 September 1939. The Slovak coat of arms appears in the upper left, with the serial number and series prefix printed in red above the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA DESAŤ KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH VYDANÝCH PODĽA VLÁDNEHO NARIADENIA ZO DŇA 23. MÁJA 1939 ČÍSLO 120 SLZ. V BRATISLAVE, DŇA 15. SEPTEMBRA 1939. MINISTER FINANCIÍ FALŠOVANIE SA TRESTÁ |
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This note was issued in the first months of the clerical-fascist Slovak state declared on 14 March 1939 — a state that existed only because Hitler pressured Jozef Tiso to declare independence the day before German troops occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia. The new republic needed its own currency immediately, and the earliest Slovak issues were essentially repurposed Czechoslovak printing stock adapted under considerable time pressure.
Pick 4 is among the founding emission of the Slovenská Republika's paper currency. Genuine examples from 1939 circulated heavily through the war years and survivors in clean condition are considerably less common than their nominal scarcity figures suggest.