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20 Korun
| Issuer | Slovenská republika |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Size | 130 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and orange tones, with a central vignette of a young woman in traditional Slovak costume facing three-quarters right, framed within an ornate border of repeated geometric guilloche patterns. The upper field carries the inscription SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA and the large denomination legend DVADSAŤ KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH in bold letterpress. The numeral 20 appears at lower left, with serial number and series prefix printed in blue at upper centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA DVADSAŤ KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH VYDANÝCH PODĽA VLÁDNEHO NARIADENIA Č. 150/1939 SL. Z. 20 |
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Slovakia's first independent state — a client regime of Nazi Germany established in March 1939 — needed its own currency infrastructure quickly, and Neografia in Turčiansky Svätý Martin became the workhorse printer for the series. The 1942 date places this note mid-war, after the Slovak koruna had already been pegged to the Reichsmark at a rate widely considered punishing to Slovak economic interests.
Neografia had been primarily a book and commercial printer; its banknote output for the wartime Slovak state remains one of the more unusual episodes in central European printing history.