Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Haléřů
| Issuer | Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1940-1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin, Latin (Fraktur blackletter) |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 50 |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was not a sovereign state but a Nazi administrative fiction imposed after Germany's occupation of the Czech lands in March 1939. Its coinage — including this zinc issue — was a deliberate economic tool: the Reich had requisitioned Czech gold and silver reserves almost immediately, making base-metal substitutes a necessity rather than a choice. Zinc was the occupier's metal of preference across occupied Europe, conserving strategic materials for the war economy.
Czech zinc coins from this period corrode aggressively in anything but ideal storage conditions, and survivors in undamaged state are considerably scarcer than mintage figures suggest.