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5 Korún Pattern
| Issuer | Slovakia |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Composition | Nickel |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Slovak state coat of arms — a shield bearing a patriarchal double-barred cross rising from three hills — flanked on either side by crossed wheat ears tied at the base, evoking an agricultural motif. The large numeral '5' appears prominently above the shield. The curved legend 'PÄŤ KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH' arcs around the upper periphery, with the date 1939 inscribed in the lower exergue beneath the wheat sprays. |
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| Mintage | 1939 |
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Slovakia declared independence on March 14, 1939 — the day before German troops occupied Bohemia and Moravia — and the new state immediately needed its own coinage. Pattern pieces from 1939 represent the earliest design trials conducted under the First Slovak Republic, a clerical-fascist regime under Jozef Tiso that existed entirely under German protection. Most were never approved for circulation in their tested form, making surviving examples products of a bureaucratic process that moved faster than the political situation warranted.