| Description de l’avers |
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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| Description du revers |
The reverse is executed in blue and orange-brown with an intricate guilloche background. A central circular vignette in orange-brown bears the Czechoslovak lion coat of arms, surrounded by the circular legend 'REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ'. Large ornamental numerals '5' and the words 'PĚT KORUN' appear at the top centre, while the denomination is also rendered in Slovak, Russian, and German ('PÄŤ KORÚN', 'ПЯТЬ КРОНЪ', 'FÜNF KRONEN') in vertical panels at each side. A cautionary anti-counterfeiting inscription runs across the lower portion, with 'SERIE 6' at the bottom centre. |
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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.