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5 Korun
| Issuer | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Value | 5 Korun |
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| Obverse description | Red on light brown underprint, with the denomination and text arranged across the face. The serial number is printed in blue at the lower right. Inscriptions include the issuer title, denomination in words, date of issue, and an anti-counterfeiting warning, all set against a fine guilloche background. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ 5 PÉT KORUN ČESKOSLOVENSKÝCH V PRAZE DNE 25. LEDNA 1949 PADĚLÁNÍ SE TRESTÁ PODLE ZÁKONA (Translation: CZECHOSLOVAKIA 5 Five Korun 25 January 1949 on Prague Falsification is punishable by law) |
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This note belongs to the first wave of currency issued after the February 1948 communist takeover, when the new government moved quickly to redesign Czechoslovak money with iconography aligned to the Soviet bloc aesthetic. The 1949 series replaced transitional postwar issues that had carried over prewar design conventions.
P#68 is among the smallest-format notes the series produced, which made it prone to heavy wear in daily use — surviving uncirculated examples are noticeably harder to find than the higher denominations from the same emission.