Catalog
50 Korun
| Issuer | National Bank for Bohemia and Moravia |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio vignette of Veruna Čudová after the painting by Josef Mánes, rendered in a fine engraved portrait facing left, dressed in traditional Bohemian folk costume with a head covering. The centre of the note carries a large ornamental wreath of wildflowers and wheat ears encircling the bilingual denomination inscriptions in German and Czech, with the date line reading 'PRAG, DEN 25. SEPTEMBER 1944 – V PRAZE DNE 25. ZÁŘÍ 1944' beneath. The designers' names B. FOJTÁŠEK and J. SCHMIDT appear at the lower left and lower right margins respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | PROTEKTORAT BÖHMEN UND MÄHREN FÜNFZIG KRONEN PADESÁT KORUN PROTEKTORÁT ČECHY A MORAVA PRAG, DEN 25. SEPTEMBER 1944. – V PRAZE DNE 25. ZÁŘÍ 1944. NACHMACHUNG WIRD BESTRAFT. – PADĚLÁNÍ SE TRESTÁ. B. FOJTÁŠEK J. SCHMIDT |
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The National Bank for Bohemia and Moravia was the occupation-era institution established by the Reich in 1939 to replace the Czechoslovak National Bank — a bureaucratic erasure dressed as administration. This 1944 issue came late in the Protectorate's existence, printed by Státní tiskárna cenin at a moment when the Reich's war position was already collapsing. Notes issued this close to the end of the occupation had short practical lives; liberation in May 1945 triggered rapid currency reorganization under the restored Czechoslovak state.
Fojtášek and Schmidt had both worked on earlier Protectorate issues, giving the series a degree of visual continuity that masked increasingly constrained wartime production conditions.