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1000 Korun
| Issuer | Česká Národní Banka (Czech National Bank) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Engraver(s) | Václav Fajt |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of František Palacký, the eminent Czech historian and statesman, positioned to the right, rendered in fine line engraving against a violet and lilac guilloche underprint. To the left, a large stylized tree vignette serves as a central compositional element, with the denomination numeral 1000 in bold at the upper left and the inscription TISÍC KORUN ČESKÝCH across the centre. The issuer name ČESKÁ NÁRODNÍ BANKA appears in the lower centre, with the designer and engraver credits printed vertically at the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of František Palacký visible in the unprinted left area of the note; embedded security thread running vertically through the paper. |
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This note entered circulation on 8 February 1993, less than six weeks after the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 1 January — making it one of the first distinctly Czech banknotes ever issued. The timeline was tight enough that Czech and Slovak notes from the transitional period were initially distinguished only by adhesive stamps applied to existing Czechoslovak stock, before proper national series could be released.
Kulhánek designed and Fajt engraved the entire initial Czech series, a rare domestic pairing at a moment when many newly independent states were contracting foreign security printers.