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500 Korun 2nd Issue
| Issuer | Národní banka pro Čechy a Moravu / Nationalbank für Böhmen und Mähren |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Koruna (1939-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown on multicolour underprint. An intaglio portrait vignette of Baroque painter Peter Johann Brandl (1668–1735), engraved by Jindřich Schmidt in 1942 after Brandl's own self-portrait of circa 1695, occupies the right side of the note. Bilingual German and Czech text identifying the issuing authority and the date of issue, 24 February 1942, is distributed across the face, with serial number and the signatures of the Bankovní rada appearing in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Olive on multicolour underprint with elaborate guilloche patterning in dark reddish-brown tones. A large bold numeral '500' is rendered in intaglio within an ornate oval guilloche medallion at the centre-left, with repeated numeral corner guards flanking the central axis. The bilingual denomination in German and Czech is inscribed in bold letterpress across the centre, with the issuing bank names in both languages above and below, and the second-issue designation appearing at the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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