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5 Korún Trial Strike
| Issuer | Slovakia |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse lettering | PÄŤ KORÚN 5 SLOVENSKÝCH 1939 (Translation: 5 SLOVAK KORUN) |
| Reverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Andrej Hlinka, the prominent Slovak Roman Catholic priest and nationalist leader, dominates the central field. A circular legend encircles the portrait, bearing the patriotic motto in Latin script. The bust is rendered in relief with fine detail typical of a trial strike. A single green cancellation mark was applied to this specimen upon demonetization. |
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Slovakia's March 1939 declaration of independence — engineered under direct Nazi pressure days after Hitler summoned Jozef Tiso to Berlin — created the immediate bureaucratic problem of a new state needing its own coinage almost overnight. Trial strikes like this aluminium piece represent the hurried process of establishing a monetary infrastructure from scratch within the first months of the clerical-fascist Slovak State. Aluminium was already a favored wartime metal across Axis-aligned economies, and its selection here reflects both material pragmatism and political alignment.