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10 Korun
| Issuer | Státní Banka Československá (State Bank of Czechoslovakia) |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Reference(s) | P#94 |
| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849–1921) occupies the right half of the note, with his name and dates inscribed at lower right. The centre presents a radiating starburst guilloche underprint in blue, green, and gold tones, at the heart of which sits the Czechoslovak state coat of arms in red. A decorative oval vignette with geometric lathe-work appears at the far left, alongside the serial number and prefix letter printed in dark blue. |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic landscape vignette of the Orava region in Slovakia fills the central field, rendered in fine intaglio line engraving with forested mountain slopes rising to a dramatic peak beneath a clouded sky; the word ORAVA appears at lower centre. A red-plumaged bird stands at lower left amid vegetation, flanked by stylised berry-bearing shrubs, while a decorative folk-art motif with wild strawberries occupies the right margin. The denomination numeral 10 appears twice, set within a guilloche rosette at lower centre-right and in the upper left corner. |
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Albín Brunovský was a Slovak graphic artist whose work sat firmly in the tradition of fine printmaking — an unusual choice for banknote design, and it shows. The 1986 series represented one of the last coherent design commissions before Czechoslovakia's monetary system was upended by the Velvet Revolution and subsequent separation. Státní Tiskárna Cenin handled the full production run in Prague, with intaglio engraving split between Václav Fajt on the obverse and Bohumil Šneider on the reverse — a division of labor common to the facility's output across this period.
The watermark remains the note's only mechanical security provision, modest even by 1980s socialist-bloc standards.