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This banknote can truly change your life.
Just look in your wallet
Whoever is incredibly lucky and has this rare banknote at home will be made wealthy.
The price of this banknote is fairly high and its value can climb to astronomical heights. And literally. All it takes is that you find something interesting on a 200 CZK banknote. So what is it?
What must it contain?
Of course this is not a regular two-hundred-crown banknote. You must have a rare specimen. But 99 % of people don’t know they have something like that in their wallet. Look at our photo gallery below to see exactly what you have to find on the banknote for it to have such value.
Banknotes are still in circulation
No one knows exactly how many banknotes with Jan Amos Komensky and the inscription Republique du Zaire entered circulation in 1993. What is certain is that collectors began withdrawing them from circulation very quickly. There are currently around twenty acknowledged pieces among them. Others may be lying, for example, somewhere under a cupboard, in an old drawer, or in an unused jacket from a grandfather.
The chance that more (African) banknotes will appear is minimal. But you never know if you might be the lucky one and have the banknote with you. So quickly check whether you happen to have such a banknote.
“So it’s a two-hundred note from 1993 and it has a security thread with the inscription Republique du Zaire. They made a mistake by taking a different reel of metallic thread. The vast majority were caught, but a few pieces got into circulation. In my opinion there’s really a small chance that the note will still make it into circulation. It won’t make you a millionaire, but we managed to sell a note in perfect condition for 700,000. But that’s really an undamaged banknote that looks like it just came out of the press,” said Roman Veselý of AUREA Numismatika, adding that the banknote could still be lying at someone’s home.
If you make a mistake at work your boss won’t praise you, but if you make a mistake at the State Printing Works for Securities, a unique story will begin to unfold, at the end of which can be a very interesting sum.
In 1993 the Czech Republic needed its own money fairly quickly after splitting from Slovakia. The security thread was then purchased in full spools in Germany. And there they accidentally mixed into the shipment a metallic thread that refers to Africa.
Photographs of the mentioned banknote
