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1000 Korun Overprint 'SLOVENSKÝ ŠTÁT'
| Issuer | Národná Banka Slovenská |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Printer | Státní Tiskárna Cenin, Prague, Czech Republic (1953-date) |
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| Obverse description | Violet two-line overprint 'SLOVENSKÝ ŠTÁT' applied to the face of the earlier Czechoslovak 1000 Korun note. The underlying design retains a central vignette with a kneeling nude boy holding an archery bow beside an allegorical woman with an open book, a girl leaning on her shoulder, and surrounding motifs of fruit, vegetables, and flowers; a rooster appears within the composition. Czech-language statutory text runs along the margins. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse retains the original Czechoslovak design centered on a reclining lion with an open book, flanked by a bust of an allegorical female figure (Liberty) wearing a Phrygian cap and a kneeling allegorical child set against a coastal background. Czech-language issuer and denomination inscriptions border the composition. |
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When the Slovak State was proclaimed on 14 March 1939, the new authorities had no time to commission original currency. The solution was blunt: existing Czechoslovak 1000 Korun notes were overprinted with "SLOVENSKÝ ŠTÁT" to establish a nominally distinct Slovak circulation. The Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague — still operating within what had just become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia — handled the overprinting, a peculiar arrangement given the political rupture the overprint itself was meant to symbolize.
Separation of the Slovak and Czech circulations was formalized on 4 April 1939, when a border currency control came into force. Notes had to be stamped to remain valid on the Slovak side.