Catalog
20 Korún Millennium
| Issuer | Národná banka Slovenska |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Printer | BA International Inc. (British American Banknote Company Limited), Ottawa, Canada |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette portrays Prince Pribina, the first known ruler with his seat at Nitra until 833 AD, rendered in intaglio against an ornate guilloche underprint. The commemorative inscriptions mark the Bimillennium year 2000, with the denomination and issuing authority lettered across the face. The engraver's and designer's credits appear in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of Nitra Castle occupies the central field, rendered in fine intaglio line work. Overprinted across the main design is a portion of a 9th-century coral necklace with a crescent-shaped bronze locket, an artefact recovered by archaeologists at Nitra-Lupky, serving as a direct visual link to the Pribina-era heritage commemorated by this issue. |
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Issued specifically to mark the millennium, this is a commemorative circulation note rather than a routine replacement issue — the Národná banka Slovenska commissioned it as a deliberate one-off within the koruna series. BA International in Ottawa had handled Slovak banknote production through much of the 1990s, and Beckers' engraving work is consistent with the restrained intaglio style the Ottawa shop favored during that period.
Pick 34 carries only a watermark as its primary security feature, notably sparse for a year-2000 issue when polymer substrates and multicolor threads were already standard elsewhere. The Slovak koruna was replaced by the euro on 1 January 2009.