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50 Korun
| Issuer | National Bank for Bohemia and Moravia |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 50 Korun |
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| Obverse lettering | PROTEKTORAT BÖHMEN UND MÄHREN FÜNFZIG KRONEN PADESÁT KORUN PROTEKTORÁT ČECHY A MORAVA PRAG, DEN 25. SEPTEMBER 1944. – V PRAZE DNE 25. ZÁŘÍ 1944. NACHMACHUNG WIRD BESTRAFT. – PADĚLÁNÍ SE TRESTÁ. B. FOJTÁŠEK J. SCHMIDT |
| Reverse description | The left portion of the reverse is dominated by a large multicolour guilloche rosette medallion in green and ochre tones, with the numeral '50' at its centre, surrounded by intricate lathe-work patterns and an ornate scalloped border. The right field carries the bilingual authority and denomination inscriptions in German and Czech set against a finely cross-hatched guilloche underprint bearing a faint state emblem watermark area. A repeating '5050' micropatterned border frames the entire design. |
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The National Bank for Bohemia and Moravia was the occupation-era institution established by the Reich in 1939 to replace the Czechoslovak National Bank — a bureaucratic erasure dressed as administration. This 1944 issue came late in the Protectorate's existence, printed by Státní tiskárna cenin at a moment when the Reich's war position was already collapsing. Notes issued this close to the end of the occupation had short practical lives; liberation in May 1945 triggered rapid currency reorganization under the restored Czechoslovak state.
Fojtášek and Schmidt had both worked on earlier Protectorate issues, giving the series a degree of visual continuity that masked increasingly constrained wartime production conditions.