Trial strikes of this denomination were produced as the Czechoslovak National Bank evaluated potential coinage designs in the late 1920s, a period when the young republic was still consolidating its monetary infrastructure after breaking from Austro-Hungarian currency arrangements following 1918. Most trials from this program never advanced to circulation, and nickel brass — relatively uncommon for Czechoslovak trials of this period — suggests this piece was testing alloy performance as much as design suitability.
Trial strikes of this denomination were produced as the Czechoslovak National Bank evaluated potential coinage designs in the late 1920s, a period when the young republic was still consolidating its monetary infrastructure after breaking from Austro-Hungarian currency arrangements following 1918. Most trials from this program never advanced to circulation, and nickel brass — relatively uncommon for Czechoslovak trials of this period — suggests this piece was testing alloy performance as much as design suitability.