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5000 Korun
| Issuer | Slovenská Národná Banka (Slovak National Bank) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Printer | Neografia, Turčiansky Svätý Martin, Slovakia |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio portrait vignette of Prince Mojmír I (inscribed "KNIEŽA MOJMÍR 836–846") is set within an ornate oval guilloche frame, printed in brown over an orange and green underprint. The denomination "PÄŤTISÍC KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH" runs in large letterpress across the centre, with the issuing authority "SLOVENSKÁ NÁRODNÁ BANKA V BRATISLAVE" and the date "V Bratislave dňa 18. decembra 1944" positioned below. Two facsimile signatures appear at bottom centre beneath the titles GUVERNÉR and RIADITEĽ, with the warning legend "FALSOVANIE SA TRESCE" at foot. |
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| Reverse description | At left, an elaborate allegorical vignette presents a wreath of fruit, grain, and foliage encircling the Slovak coat of arms — a white double cross on a red and blue shield — set against a radiating guilloche sunburst. The large denomination numeral "5000" appears at centre within a complex rosette guilloche, flanked by vertical side panels bearing repeated value figures. The denomination legend "PÄŤTISÍC KORÚN SLOVENSKÝCH" is printed above, with trilingual equivalents in German (FÜNFTAUSEND Ks), Cyrillic, and Hungarian (ÖTEZER Ks) arranged at foot. |
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The Slovak National Bank's 5000 Korun was the highest denomination issued by the wartime Slovak State, a client regime whose monetary independence from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was real but carefully managed. Neografia in Turčiansky Svätý Martin — the same town that had been the cultural heartbeat of Slovak national revival for generations — handled all domestic banknote printing throughout the war, an arrangement that continued into the postwar Czechoslovak restoration period.
The 1944 date places this note in the Slovak State's final operational year. The August 1944 Slovak National Uprising effectively split the country, and monetary circulation in insurgent-held territory became chaotic before Soviet and Czechoslovak forces consolidated control in early 1945. Notes of this denomination from this period survived in relatively small numbers.