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1000 Korún
| Issuer | Slovenská Národná Banka |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Koruna (1939-1945) |
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| Obverse lettering | TÁTO BANKOVKA VYDANÁ PODĽA VLÁDNEHO NARIADENIA Č. 44/1939 SL. Z. PLATÍ TISÍC KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH V BRATISLAVE DŇA 25. NOVEMBRA 1940. SLOVENSKÁ NÁRODNÁ BANKA V BRATISLAVE GUVERNÉR RIADITEĽ FALŠOV. N. Z. SA CRESCE KRÁĽ SVÄTOPLUK Š BEDNÁR DEL J. SCHMIDT SC. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible when held to light; repeated microtext reading SLOVENSKÁ NÁRODNÁ BANKA incorporated into border bands on both faces. |
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The Slovak National Bank began issuing its own currency in 1939 immediately after the cleaving of Czechoslovakia, and this 1000 Korún represents the high-denomination anchor of that first independent series. Engraved by Jindřich Schmidt — a craftsman whose work appeared on several Central European issues of the period — the intaglio quality is notably high for a note printed domestically rather than contracted to one of the major European security printers.
Schmidt's engraving credit is confirmed for this series; the printing was handled in-house at the SNB's Bratislava facility, which was relatively unusual for a newly established central bank still building its institutional infrastructure.