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5 Korún Trial Strike
| Issuer | Slovakia |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Value | 5 Korún |
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| Reverse lettering | ZA BOHA ŽIVOT · ZA NÁROD SLOBODU (Translation: LIFE FOR GOD. FOR FREEDOM OF THE NATION) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Slovakia's March 1939 declaration of independence — engineered under direct Nazi pressure days after Hitler summoned Jozef Tiso to Berlin — created the immediate bureaucratic problem of a new state needing its own coinage almost overnight. Trial strikes like this aluminium piece represent the hurried process of establishing a monetary infrastructure from scratch within the first months of the clerical-fascist Slovak State. Aluminium was already a favored wartime metal across Axis-aligned economies, and its selection here reflects both material pragmatism and political alignment.