Slovakia 1944 10 korun

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck in 1944 at the Kremnitz mint for the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, which was divided from Czechoslovakia 1939-45. It is accompanied by a silver fifty korun. Slovakia was reunited to Bohemia-Moravia in 1945 by the Soviet Red Army. In 1993, after the fall of the Communists, Slovakia obtained a divorce from the Czech Republic and became once again independent. The Communist era problems of economic imbalance, environmental destruction and corruption remain.

Recorded mintage: 1,381,000.

Specification: 7 g, 0.500 fine silver, .111 troy oz ASW, 29 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 9.1.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1942 aluminum 20 halierov
• Slovakia 1944 50 halierov
• Slovakia 1944 korun
• 1944 50 korun
• Coins and currency dated 1944
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