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10 Halierov Trial Strike
| Issuer | Slovakia |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Koruna (1939-1945) |
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| Obverse description | At center, the Slovak coat of arms — a shield bearing a patriarchal (double-barred) cross rising from a three-peaked mountain — occupies the central field. The circular legend SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA runs along the upper periphery, flanked by decorative dots, while the date 1943 appears at the base of the design between two raised dots. The entire design is framed by a dashed inner border following the coin's rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Slovakia's wartime puppet government under Jozef Tiso was still negotiating the practical mechanics of its currency infrastructure in 1943, and trial strikes like this one were produced to test zinc as a base metal substitute — a direct consequence of wartime material shortages affecting mints across occupied and client states of the Reich. Zinc had already been adopted by Germany itself for low-denomination coinage by this point, and Bratislava followed suit.
This piece never entered circulation. Surviving trial strikes from the Slovak wartime series are rarely encountered outside specialist collections.