Catalog
20 Korún Provisional Note
| Issuer | Národná banka Slovenska (National Bank of Slovakia) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Size | 137 × 67 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse retains the original Czechoslovak intaglio design, with a Glagolitic alphabet inscription at left, a central vignette of the Tree of Life rising from an open book, and a young couple at right, all executed in the characteristic illustrative engraving style of Albín Brunovský. |
| Reverse lettering | BANKOVKY JSOU KRYTY ZLATEM A OSTATNIMI AKTIVY STATNI BANKY CESKOSLOVENSKE A. BRUNOVSKÝ DEL. STÁTNÍ TISKÁRNA CENIN, PRAHA V. FAJT SC. (Translation: Banknotes are Backed with Gold and other Assets of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia) |
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When Czechoslovakia dissolved on 1 January 1993, Slovakia had no currency of its own ready for immediate issue. Rather than accept a prolonged monetary union with the new Czech Republic, Slovak authorities chose a blunt interim solution: existing Czechoslovak 20 Korún notes were stamped with adhesive labels to convert them into legal tender of the new state. This P#15 provisional — the stamped note — circulated only briefly before purpose-designed Slovak issues replaced it.
Brunovský designed the underlying Czechoslovak note; Ondráček and Fajt engraved it. Neither man was working for Slovakia — the design was simply inherited.