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5 Korun
| Issuer | Ministerstvo Financí (Ministry of Finance of Czechoslovakia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 119 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and red on a fine guilloche underprint. To the left, an oval portrait vignette presents Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), identified by the inscription 'J. A. Komenský 1592–1670' beneath. The centre carries a large numeral '5' in red, flanked by a text panel stating the legal authority under which the note was issued and the date 'v Praze 28. září 1921', with the denomination 'pět korun československých' in bold letterpress at lower right. A facsimile ministerial signature appears at the lower right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | J. A. Komenský 1592 1670 Tato státovka vydána podle zákona ze dne 10 dubna 1919 čís. 187 Sb. zák. a nař. platí pět korun československých v Praze 28. září 1921 |
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Czechoslovakia's Ministry of Finance — rather than the central bank — issued this note directly, a stopgap arrangement that persisted through the early 1920s while the newly independent state was still assembling its financial infrastructure. The 5 Koruna denomination was a workhorse of everyday commerce in this period, and the Ministry's direct role as issuer reflects how provisional the whole monetary apparatus still was just a few years after the 1918 dissolution of Austria-Hungary.
The print run of just over 12 million is modest by postwar European standards, and attrition from heavy circulation has made genuinely unhandled examples harder to find than the numbers suggest.