Catalog
5 Korún
| Issuer | Slovenská Republika (Slovak Republic) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in brown and buff tones, is dominated by a large ornate numeral '5' set against an intricate guilloche background at centre. A decorative banner inscribed 'PÄŤ' crosses the left field, flanked by rendered botanical motifs including wheat ears, hop leaves, and pine branches. The inscriptions 'SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA' appear across the top, with the denomination repeated in German ('FÜNF KS'), Russian ('ПЯТЬ КS'), and Hungarian ('ÖT KS') along the lower margin, and the anti-counterfeiting warning 'FALSOVANIE SA TRESCE' within a box at the bottom centre. The serial number prefix 'RAD' is printed at the top. |
| Reverse lettering | SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA 5 KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH PÄŤ FÜNF KS ПЯТЬ KS ÖT KS FALSOVANIE SA TRESCE |
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The Slovak Republic that issued this note was the client state established under German protection in March 1939 — by 1945, the regime was in its death throes. Neografia in Turčiansky Svätý Martin had been the principal printing house for Slovak currency throughout the war years, and this late issue reflects a state still maintaining the administrative forms of sovereignty even as the front collapsed around it.
The Slovak National Uprising of August 1944 had already severely disrupted the political and economic order. Notes dated 1945 circulated only briefly before Czechoslovak currency was restored following liberation.