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1 Koruna
| Issuer | Tuzex (Podnik zahraničního obchodu) |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Value | 1 Koruna (1 CSK) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 IV/1985 ČÍSLO: ODBĚRNÍ POUKAZ PODNIKU ZAHRANIČNÍHO OBCHODU TUZEX V HODNOTĚ 1 KČS (JEDNA Kčs), který opravňuje jeho držitele uhradit kupní cenu zboží, prodávaného jménem podniku zahraničního obchodu TUZEX za devizové prostředky. STC |
| Reverse description | Plain cream reverse bearing a single central guilloche rosette in olive-yellow, formed by interlacing lathe-work curves. The remainder of the surface is unprinted. The serial number is faintly visible in mirror impression from the obverse. |
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Tuzex was a state-run hard currency retail network operating in Czechoslovakia from 1957 onward, selling Western goods — electronics, alcohol, Levi's jeans — that were otherwise unobtainable through normal socialist commerce. These bony, as the vouchers were colloquially known, circulated in a legal grey zone: officially non-negotiable between private citizens, but in practice traded on an active black market at a significant premium over the official exchange rate.
By 1985, the parallel economy built around Tuzex vouchers had become an open embarrassment to the regime, which periodically redesigned them partly to disrupt black market accumulation.