Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Republic of Czechoslovakia, 10 korun (1919)

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The brief 1919 provisional issue of Czechoslovakian banknotes (less than five months) used a 1915 Austro-Hungarian Bank issue as its base. Affixing an adhesive stamp equal to 1/100 the value of the note (i.e., 1 koruna = 100 haleru) to the left front side served as validation of legal tender status in the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Following currency reform, the first regular issue banknotes were printed with a date of 15 April 1919.

Articles in which this image appears

Banknotes of the Czechoslovak koruna (1919), Czechoslovak koruna (recent addition to both, low traffic articles, only image in each)

FP category for this image

Currency

Creator

Austro-Hungarian Bank and the Republic of Czechoslovakia
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Image by Godot13.

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 04:19, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Ooh, I like this one. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:31, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
• Comment The uneven black space between the two notes is irritating my OCD ;) --Muhammad(talk) 11:28, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Muhammad- I hear you and I understand. In order to make sure that each side of the note has the best horizontal and vertical alignment, the margins do not always meet perfectly as these notes frequently had some small alignment errors. Sorry...--Godot13 (talk) 11:32, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
    • Support --Muhammad(talk) 06:56, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support — Historically intriguing, partly for the language/minority issues that plagued this part of Europe for so long. Sca (talk) 14:00, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - why is the upper banknote written in Hungarian while the lower is in German? I know Hungarians say korona to Swedish kronas. Hafspajen (talk) 14:46, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

German and Hungarian were the two official languages of Austria-Hungary, which originally issued this banknote — and where seven or eight other languages were spoken. This is a temporary adaptation of an old A-H note by the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic (where Czech/Slovak and German were the main languages at the time). Sca (talk) 15:15, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Hm. Interesting that they cross used money like that. Like me paying with Swedish krona on Island, no problem. (Scandinavians). Hafspajen (talk) 18:11, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - I too noticed the uneven black lines but the historical importance and overall quality of the image have mooted that concern, especially with the explanation about the uneven cut. A fascinating photo of an era of transition. Jusdafax 21:40, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - per Haf's question the note has the denomination in ten languages (2 main and 8 subsidiary)- Czech, Polish, Russian, Italian, Croat?, Slovene?, Bulgarian and Romanian. But not Serbian… Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:25, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:CZE-1-Republika Ceskoslovenska-10 Korun (1919, Provisional issue).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:27, 29 October 2014 (UTC)