Catalog
500 Korun
| Issuer | Národní Banka pro Čechy a Moravu (National Bank for Bohemia and Moravia) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Size | 187 × 86 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown intaglio print on multicolor guilloche underprint. An engraved portrait vignette of Baroque painter Peter Johann Brandl (1668–1735) occupies the right portion of the note, rendered after his own painting of circa 1695. The bilingual (German/Czech) text of the issuing authority and legal tender provisions runs across the face, with the denomination numeral 500 repeated in the corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 500 DIESE NACH DEN GESETZEN VOM 14.APRIL 1920, SLG. NR. 347, UND VOM23.APRIL 1925, SLG. NR.102, UND NACH DER REGIERUNGSVERORDNUNG VOM 31. MÄRZ 1939, SLG. NR. 96, AUSGEGEBENE BANKNOTE GILT: TATO BANKOVA, VYDANÁ PODLE ZÁKONU ZE DNE 14. DUBNA 1920, Č. 347, SB. A ZE DNE 23. DUBNA 1925, Č. 102, SB. A PODLE VLÁDNÍHO NAŘÍZENÍ ZE DNE 31. BŘEZNA 1939, Č. 96, SB., PLATÍ: FÜNF HUNDERT KRONEN PĚT SET KORUN PRAG, DEN 24. FEBRUAR 1942. - V PRAZE DNE 24. ÚNORA 1942. NATIONALBANK FÜR BÖHMEN UND MÄHREN IN PRAG NÁRODNÍ BANKA PRO ČECHY A MORAVU V PRAZE BANKRAT - BANKOVNÍ RADA GOUVERNEUR - GUVERNÉR OBERDIREKTOR - VRCHNÍ ŘEDITEL NACHMACHUNG WIRD BESTRAFT. - Padělání se trestá. PETER BRANDL 1668 - 1735 500 500 P. BRANDL PINX. cca 1695. J. SCHMIDT SC. 1942 BANKNOTENDRUCKEREI DER NATIONALBANK FÜR BÖHMEN UND MÄHREN IN PRAG TISKÁRNA BANKOVEK NÁRODNÍ BANKA PRO ČECHY A MORAVU V PRAZE |
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The Národní Banka pro Čechy a Moravu was a German-controlled institution operating under the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia — a occupation currency authority in all but name. This 500 Korun note was printed in Prague by the bank's own printing works, one of the few occupied territories to maintain an in-house banknote production facility rather than having currency produced in the Reich itself.
Jindřich Schmidt's engraving work on this series is among the finer Czech wartime output. The design draws from Petr Brandl, the early 18th-century Bohemian Baroque painter — a culturally assertive choice for a note issued under Nazi administration, though how much agency Czech designers exercised in that selection is not documented.