Catalog
50 Korún Provisional Note
| Issuer | Národná Banka Slovenska |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Vaclav Fajt Reverse: Ladislav Škarban |
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| Obverse description | A provisional issue based on the 1987 Czechoslovak 50 Korún note (P#96), overstamped with a rectangular adhesive stamp bearing the Slovak coat of arms and the inscription 'SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA' to validate it for circulation in the newly independent Slovak Republic. The central vignette carries an intaglio portrait of Ľudovít Štúr at right, with a large numeral '50' guilloche medallion at left and an eagle vignette in the centre. The denomination 'PÄŤDESIAT KORÚN ČESKOSLOVENSKÝCH' and the date '1987' appear across the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKOVKY SÚ KRYTÉ ZLATOM A OSTATNÝMI AKTÍVAMI ŠTÁTNEJ BANKY ČESKOSLOVENSKEJ BRATISLAVA © ŠTÁTNA BANKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ A. BRUNOVSKÝ DEL. L. ŠKARBAN SC. 50 |
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When Czechoslovakia dissolved on 1 January 1993, both successor states faced an immediate practical problem: neither had its own currency ready. Slovakia's solution was to overstamp existing Czechoslovak banknotes with adhesive stamps bearing the Národná Banka Slovenska eagle, creating provisional Slovak currency overnight. This 50 Korún is one of those stamped transitional notes — the underlying note was a Czechoslovak issue, printed in Prague by Státní Tiskárna Cenin, now repurposed for a country that had not yet existed when the sheet left the press.
The stamps were applied hastily and the operation was not perfectly controlled. Misaligned, double-struck, and missing stamps all exist, and forgeries of the stamp itself appeared quickly enough that the provisionals were withdrawn within months once proper Slovak-designed notes entered circulation.