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20 Korun
| Issuer | Slovenská republika |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Size | 130 × 67 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and orange hues, dominated by a central intaglio vignette of a seated armoured knight with shield and lance, rendered in a detailed engraved style. The denomination DVADSAŤ KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH is boldly inscribed at upper centre in letterpress, with multilingual equivalents below — ZWANZIG KS, ДВАДЦЯТЬ КС, and HÚSZ KS — reflecting the note's regional circulation context. The numeral 20 is repeated at lower right within a plain panel, and the whole composition is framed by a guilloche border consistent with the obverse design. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Slovakia's first independent state — a client regime of Nazi Germany established in March 1939 — needed its own currency infrastructure quickly, and Neografia in Turčiansky Svätý Martin became the workhorse printer for the series. The 1942 date places this note mid-war, after the Slovak koruna had already been pegged to the Reichsmark at a rate widely considered punishing to Slovak economic interests.
Neografia had been primarily a book and commercial printer; its banknote output for the wartime Slovak state remains one of the more unusual episodes in central European printing history.