Catalog
1000 Korún
| Issuer | Slovenská Národná Banka |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| In circulation to | 31 October 1945 |
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| Reverse description | The left half presents a large circular guilloche medallion in red and blue, centred on the Slovak double-cross shield coat of arms, surrounded by intricate foliate lacework. Guilloche rosette corner pieces bearing the numeral 1000 appear at each corner, and a repeating microtext band reading SLOVENSKÁ NÁRODNÁ BANKA runs along the upper and lower borders. The right half carries the denomination in bold letterpress — SLOVENSKÁ NÁRODNÁ BANKA / 1000 / TISÍC KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH — followed by multilingual equivalents in German, Russian and Hungarian, set against a fine lattice underprint; the far right margin is filled with a solid block of repeated red microtext. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Microtext |
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The Slovak National Bank began issuing its own currency in 1939 immediately after the cleaving of Czechoslovakia, and this 1000 Korún represents the high-denomination anchor of that first independent series. Engraved by Jindřich Schmidt — a craftsman whose work appeared on several Central European issues of the period — the intaglio quality is notably high for a note printed domestically rather than contracted to one of the major European security printers.
Schmidt's engraving credit is confirmed for this series; the printing was handled in-house at the SNB's Bratislava facility, which was relatively unusual for a newly established central bank still building its institutional infrastructure.