2 Haléře Trial Strike

In May 1945, as German forces surrendered and the Czechoslovak government-in-exile began reasserting authority, planning for a restored national coinage was already underway. This aluminium trial strike dates to that transitional moment — a test piece produced before the postwar monetary framework had been formally settled, and before the sweeping 1945 currency reform that would invalidate much of the wartime-era money supply.