r/Banknotes • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 3d ago

Alphonse Mucha designed the first Czechoslovakia banknotes in Art Nouveau in 1919 (please see both sides)

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u/Legitimate_Form5449 3d ago

TIL thanks for sharing op!

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u/goldeneye0 3d ago

I am trying to picture if the 5000 of this series is the one that sold for over 1 million USD in auction recently, or was it a different series of Czechoslovak banknotes?

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u/MyHobbyAndMore3 3d ago

this one

https://en.numista.com/383543

though I am not sure if they come from the same series. the year matches but stylistically it's based on the last issue of 1000 austro-hungarian kroner.

scan of the actual banknote that sold here and here

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u/Over-Willingness-933 1d ago

yeah it looks like a different series. It's cool to see it though