Slovakia 1944 50 korun
This specimen was lot 57720 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Pittsburgh, PA, August 2023), where it sold for $40. The catalog description[1] noted, "SLOVAKIA. 50 Korun, 1944. PCGS MS-63." This type was struck in 1944 at the Kremnitz mint for the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, which was divided from Czechoslovakia 1939-45. The portrait is of Jozef Tiso, ruler of the state. It is accompanied by a silver ten 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.
Wikipedia comments,
"Jozef Gašpar Tiso (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjɔzef ˈtisɔ]; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest who served as president of the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. In 1947, after the war, he was executed for treason in Bratislava.... Tiso collaborated with Germany in deportations of Jews, deporting many Slovak Jews to extermination and concentration camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland."
Recorded mintage: 2,000,000.
Specification: 16.50 g, 0.700 fine silver, 34 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-10.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, August 2023 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
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