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5 Korun
| Issuer | Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Protektorát Čechy a Morava) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Reference(s) | P#4 |
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| Obverse lettering | Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren PROTEKTORÁT ČECHY A MORAVA Fünf Kronen PĚT KORUN Nachmachung wird bestraft. Padělání se trestá. SERIE: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in violet, with a portrait vignette of the same young woman in profile facing left, positioned within a rectangular frame on the left half of the note. The right half carries the bilingual authority inscription 'Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren' above a central Czech lion coat of arms, flanked by the denomination numerals '5' and the bilingual value texts 'fünf Kronen' and 'Pět Korun'; the full Czech inscription 'PROTEKTORÁT ČECHYA MORAVA' appears at the base, with the numeral '5' repeated along the right edge. |
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The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a German-administered entity carved from the rump of Czechoslovakia after the March 1939 occupation, and its banknotes were deliberately designed to signal administrative continuity rather than rupture — the Czech-language text remained, but the issuing authority now answered to Berlin. This 5 Korun belongs to the first issue of Protectorate currency, introduced in 1940 to replace National Bank of Czechoslovakia notes still circulating from before the occupation.
The Koruna was pegged to the Reichsmark at a rate widely regarded as punitive — 10 Korun to 1 Reichsmark — effectively transferring wealth out of the Protectorate from the moment of issue.