As many as 18.9 million Slovak Crown banknotes still held by public

A total of 18.9 million Slovak crown banknotes were still being held by the public at the end of last year, according to an annual report drawn up by the Slovak Central Bank (NBS) for 2015. Slovaks have mainly held onto banknotes with a nominal value of 20 Slovak crowns. The value of unreturned Slovak banknotes and Slovak commemorative coins reached around 2.96 billion Slovak crowns (€98.3 million).