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100 Korun
| Issuer | Česká Národní Banka (Czech National Bank) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette is an intaglio portrait of Karel IV (Charles IV), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, accompanied by obverse and reverse images of a silver Prague Groschen from the Kingdom of Bohemia rendered in fine engraved detail. The denomination "STO" and issuing authority inscriptions appear in letterpress, with a fine guilloche underprint across the note face. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the seal of Charles University in Prague in intaglio engraving, set against a fine multicolour guilloche underprint. To the right, the Czech coat of arms appears within a heraldic panel, with the large numeral "100" printed in intaglio at upper right. The lower margin carries the legal warning inscription and printer's imprint. |
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This note entered circulation on 8 February 1993, just weeks after the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 1 January — one of the fastest currency transitions in modern European history. The Czech Republic needed banknotes immediately, and Thomas De La Rue delivered. Oldřich Kulhánek designed the entire founding series, and Miloš Ondráček's intaglio engraving gives these early issues a crispness that later Czech printings don't always match.
P#5 carries only a watermark as its primary security feature — modest by the standards De La Rue was capable of, reflecting the speed under which the series was commissioned.