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100 Korún Provisional Note
| Issuer | Národná banka Slovenska |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Designer(s) | František Heřman |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note based on the 1961 Czechoslovak 100 Korun design, overprinted with a Slovak provisional stamp at upper left bearing the Slovak coat of arms and the inscriptions 'SLOVENSKA' and 'REPUBLIKA' with the denomination '100'. The main vignette at right presents a worker and a peasant woman in a circular guilloche frame, with an industrial landscape — including factory smokestacks and a power plant — stretching across the lower portion. The central legend reads 'BANKOVKA STÁTNÍ BANKY CESKOSLOVENSKÉ / STO KORUN CESKOSLOVENSKÝCH / 1961' in bold letterpress type. |
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| Reverse description | A large central intaglio vignette occupies most of the reverse, presenting a panoramic view of Charles Bridge (Karlův most) spanning the Vltava River, with the spires and towers of Prague Castle and Hradčany rising above the tree-lined bank in the background. The composition is framed within a dense guilloche border, with the numeral '100' repeated in each corner. A Czechoslovak lion coat-of-arms vignette appears in the upper right corner, and a hammer-and-sickle emblem is set below it at lower right. |
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When Czechoslovakia dissolved on 1 January 1993, neither successor state had new currency ready. Slovakia's solution was blunt: overstamp existing Czechoslovak 100 Korún notes with an adhesive stamp bearing the Národná banka Slovenska name and Slovak coat of arms, creating a provisional issue that remained legal tender only briefly before purpose-designed Slovak notes replaced it. The stamping was done hastily, and misaligned or poorly adhered stamps are common enough that they aren't considered errors — they're simply characteristic of the operation.
The underlying note was printed in Prague, and the same Prague state security printer continued producing Slovak currency after the split.