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100 Korun
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance, Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| In circulation to | 1953 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is executed entirely in green intaglio on a light ground and presents a highly decorative, symmetrical composition dominated by elaborate guilloche scrollwork. The central panel carries the large bold inscription «STO KORUN» above an oversized numeral «100», flanked on each side by subsidiary denomination panels bearing the Cyrillic legend «СТО КРОН» alongside the numeral «100». The curved arc of «REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ» runs along the upper border within a banner, accompanied by the validity clause «TÁTO POUKÁŽKA PLATÍ» and the anti-counterfeiting warning «PADĚLÁNÍ SE TRESTÁ» at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ TÁTO POUKÁŽKA PLATÍ STO KORUN 100 СТО КРОН 1944 PADĚLÁNÍ SE TRESTÁ |
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Printed in Moscow by Goznak under wartime conditions, this note was prepared by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile's financial apparatus in anticipation of liberation — part of a broader effort to have usable currency ready before the Red Army crossed into Czechoslovak territory. The Soviet connection was not incidental: by 1944 the exiled government in London had firmly aligned its postwar planning with Moscow, and the printing arrangement reflected that political reality directly.
The Goznak facility had long produced currency for foreign states, but this commission placed Soviet presses in the unusual position of printing money for a nominally Western republic.