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500 Korun
| Issuer | Ministerstvo Financí (Ministry of Finance), Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Printer | Goznak (Гознак, Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг), Russia (1818-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on cream paper and consists entirely of an elaborate geometric and foliate guilloche design without any figurative vignette. A large bold numeral '500' occupies the center of the composition, set within a radiating sunburst guilloche pattern surrounded by concentric lace-like borders. Smaller '500' numerals appear at the upper left and upper right corners within scalloped frames, and decorative scroll motifs anchor the lower corners, creating a symmetrical, purely ornamental layout. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Printed in Moscow by Goznak during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, this note was prepared by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile's financial administration in anticipation of liberation — part of a broader effort to have a functioning currency ready before the war ended. The Soviet connection was not incidental: as the Red Army rather than Western Allied forces liberated most of Czechoslovakia, the logistics of wartime note production had followed political geography.
P#49 entered circulation in 1945. Notes of this type are known to show uneven ink distribution, a known characteristic of wartime Goznak output under production pressure.