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20 Korun
| Issuer | Republika Československá |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark olive-green and black on a buff ground, dominated by an elaborate guilloche underprint radiating from a central vignette of a mountainous landscape set within an ornate cartouche. The denomination numeral '20' appears in each of the four corners within decorative scroll frames, with rosette ornaments at the lateral midpoints. The legend 'REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ' arches across the upper portion in bold letterpress, while the value inscription 'DVACAŤ KORÚN' is rendered in large intaglio characters at centre, beneath the introductory clause 'TÁTO POUKÁZKA PLATÍ'; the Cyrillic equivalent 'ДВАДЦЯТЬ КРОН' is repeated twice in the lower field, and the date '1944' and anti-counterfeiting warning 'FALŠOVANIE SA TRESTÁ' appear at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ TÁTO POUKÁZKA PLATÍ DVACAŤ KORÚN ДВАДЦЯТЬ КРОН ДВАДЦЯТЬ КРОН 1944 FALŠOVANIE SA TRESTÁ |
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Printed in Moscow by Goznak during the Second World War, this note was prepared for the post-liberation Czechoslovak government-in-exile's eventual return — part of a series commissioned in the Soviet Union while the republic remained under German occupation. The choice of Goznak over the London printers used for earlier exile-period issues reflects the shifting political alignment of the Czechoslovak government as liberation approached from the east rather than the west.
Notes from this series entered circulation only after the Red Army's advance through Slovak and Czech territories in 1944–45. That timing gave the series an unmistakably Soviet-adjacent character from the start.