Set Description



Mintage figures:



1942 5h 1,000,000

1939 10h 15,000,000

1942 10h 7,000,000

1940 20h bronze 10,972,000

1941 20h bronze 4,028,000

1942 20h bronze 6,474,000 * Rare

1942 20h aluminum Included above * Varieties exist

1943 20h aluminum 15,000,000 * Varieties exist

1940 50h ? * Rare

1941 50h 8,000,000

1943 50h 4,400,000

1944 50h 2,621,000

1940 1Ks 2,350,000

1941 1Ks 11,650,000

1942 1Ks 6,000,000 * Open and closed 4

1944 1Ks 884,000

1945 1Ks 3,321,000

1939 5Ks 5,101,000 * Pointed top or flat top to the letter

A in NAROD, Approximately 2,000,000

pieces were melted down by the

Czechoslovak National Bank in 1947"

1944 10Ks 13,81,000 * Variety 1 with cross, Variety 2

without

1939 20Ks 200,000

1941 20Ks 2,500,000 * Variety 1 single bar, Variety 2

double bar

1944 50Ks 2,000,000









Ownership:

Date Denom NGC PCGS

1942 5h 8/11 5/7

1939 10h 0/1

1942 10h 1/1

1940 20h bronze 0/1

1941 20h bronze

1942 20h bronze 1/1

1942 20h aluminum 0/3 1/1

1943 20h aluminum

1940 50h 1/1 0/1

1941 50h 1/1

1943 50h 1/2

1944 50h

1940 1Ks 1/3 1/1

1941 1Ks

1942 1Ks 2/2

1944 1Ks 1/0 1/1

1945 1Ks 1/3

1939 5Ks 3/3

1944 10Ks 4/10 1/7

1939 20Ks 4/6 5/12

1941 20Ks 12/15 3/13

1944 50Ks 8/14 0/6









After the Munich Agreement and its Vienna Award, Nazi Germany threatened to annex part of Slovakia and allow the remaining regions to be partitioned by Hungary or Poland unless independence was declared. Thus, Slovakia seceded from Czecho-Slovakia in March 1939 and allied itself, as demanded by Germany, with Hitler's coalition. The government of the First Slovak Republic, led by Jozef Tiso and Vojtech Tuka, was strongly influenced by Germany and gradually became a puppet regime in many respects.Most Jews were deported from the country and taken to German death camps. Thousands of Jews, however, remained to labor in Slovak work camps in Sered, Vyhne, and Nováky. Tiso, through the granting of presidential exceptions, has been credited with saving as many as 40,000 Jews during the war, although other estimates place the figure closer to 4,000 or even 1,000. Nevertheless, under Tiso's government, the vast majority of Slovakia's Jewish population (between 75,000-105,000 individuals) were murdered. Tiso became the only European leader to pay Nazi authorities to deport his country's Jews.After it became clear that the Soviet Red Army was going to push the Nazis out of eastern and central Europe, an anti-Nazi resistance movement launched a fierce armed insurrection, known as the Slovak National Uprising, near the end of summer 1944. A bloody German occupation and a guerilla war followed. The territory of Slovakia was liberated by Soviet and Romanian forces by the end of April 1945.The coins of the WWII Slovak koruna (slovak: koruna slovenská) were the first coins ever minted by a Slovak state. These coins were minted in the Kremnica mint, once the common state mint of the whole Czechoslovak state. Coins carried not only monetary but also propaganda function: they showed the symbols of the Slovak nation and the just born independent Slovak state. Lower denominations were made of base metals, while those above 5 Ks contained silver.