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100 Korun
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Czech text across the note with a stylized floral border framing the design; a lion coat of arms serves as an underprint across the central field; four interlocking coats of arms representing Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia are arranged within the composition. |
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| Reverse description | Multilingual text in Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Ruthenian, and Slovak reflects the multinational character of the early Czechoslovak state; a vignette of a young woman wearing a traditional headscarf is flanked by a falcon perched on a branch of linden leaves, a national symbol of Czechoslovakia. |
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Czechoslovakia declared independence in October 1918, and the new state's first monetary priority was separating its currency from the old Austro-Hungarian krone — fast. In February 1919, Finance Minister Alois Rašín organized a week-long stamping operation in which all Austro-Hungarian banknotes in Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia were physically perforated or overstamped to transform them into provisional Czechoslovak currency. This P#11 is a product of that emergency, not a purpose-designed note.
The stamping simultaneously served as a census of private wealth, since citizens had to declare holdings to participate — a deliberate policy move by Rašín to identify and tax accumulated wartime capital.