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500 Korun
| Issuer | Republika Československá (Czechoslovak Republic) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 Korun |
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| Obverse description | The Czechoslovak state arms — a rampant lion with Slovak shield — appear in an oval guilloche vignette at left, while an intaglio portrait of a WWI Czech Legionnaire in laurel wreath, rendered in fine line engraving, occupies a circular medallion at right. A large central guilloche rosette carries the numeral 500, flanked by multicolour underprint in teal and brown; the series letter A and six-digit serial number are printed in red at upper left and upper right respectively. This example bears a red SPECIMEN overprint across the centre. |
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| Reverse description | The central composition presents an oval intaglio vignette of a laureate Liberty head in left-facing profile, framed by a rectangular panel; a lion resting on an open book occupies the left side of the panel, and a seated putto appears to the right. Geometric guilloche cornerpieces carry the numeral 500 at each corner, with the denomination rendered in five languages in a panel across the lower centre. The overall colour scheme is olive-brown on a light blue guilloche underprint. |
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Czechoslovakia's early republic turned to the American Bank Note Company for several of its higher denominations — a practical choice given ABNCo's established relationships with newly sovereign European states in the aftermath of 1918. The 1923 500 Korun specimen (P#18S) belongs to that commissioning period, when Prague was still building institutional confidence in its currency after the 1919 separation from Austro-Hungarian monetary union.
Specimen examples were retained for archival and reference purposes rather than released into circulation. The "S" suffix designation confirms this status.