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100 Korún Overprint 'SLOVENSKÝ ŠTÁT' on Czechoslovak note
| Issuer | Národná Banka Slovenska |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Printer | Státní tiskárna, Prague |
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| Reverse lettering | NÁRODNÍ BANKA ČESKOSLOVENSKA 100 STO KORUN ČESKOSLOVENSKÝCH CTO Kč HUNDERT- Kč SZÁZ Kč M. ŠVABINSKÝ DEL. F. SCHIRNBÖCK SC. |
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| Protection description | a lion rampant visible when held to light |
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When the Slovak State was proclaimed on 14 March 1939, the new authorities had no banknotes of their own. The solution was blunt: existing Czechoslovak 100 Korún notes were overprinted "SLOVENSKÝ ŠTÁT" and reissued as Slovak currency, with Národná Banka Slovenska declared the issuing authority. The underlying notes continued to be printed at the same Prague facility that had produced them for Czechoslovakia — the political rupture outpaced any logistical one.
Schirnböck was a Vienna-trained engraver whose work appeared across several Central European issues of the interwar period; his collaboration with Švabinský on this series predates the overprint by years. The note's legitimacy as Slovak currency rested entirely on that stamp.