Photo: Luděk Peřina, MFDNES + LN / Profimedia
A 5000-crown banknote, produced in April 1919 for the newly independent state of Czechoslovakia, was sold at auction on Friday 15th of November for 25.68 million crowns. It therefore became the most expensive paper currency ever sold within the country.
The red and elaborately decorated note, which neither the Czech National Bank nor the National Museum owns, went to auction with a starting price of 2.
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Author: Danny Bate