500 Korun

Issuer	Národná Banka Československá
Year	1929
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Printer	American Bank Note Company, New York, United States
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Obverse description	Printed in shades of red and orange on a multicolour guilloche underprint, the obverse carries the bank title in an arched red letterpress legend at top. To the left is a circular vignette of the Czechoslovak heraldic lion, while to the right an intaglio portrait medallion shows a young woman in period dress. The large denomination numeral '500' is set within an elaborate central guilloche rosette, flanked by two smaller '500' counters, with the value inscription 'PÄŤSTO KORÚN ČESKOSLOVENSKÝCH' in a prominent red panel below. Three manuscript signatures of bank officials appear at the foot of the note.
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Reverse description	The reverse is printed predominantly in red on a multicolour guilloche ground. The central composition presents an oval intaglio vignette of a classical female allegorical bust in profile, laurel-crowned, flanked to the left by a recumbent lion resting upon a document and to the right by a putto in a landscape setting. Denomination counters '500' appear at each corner within ornate rosette frames, and a trilingual value panel below the central vignette renders the denomination in Cyrillic (ПЯТЬСОТ), Hungarian (ÖTSZÁZ), and German (FÜNF HUNDERT) alongside the 'KČ' currency abbreviation.
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