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History of Customs Issue number
574
Date of issue
06.11.2014
Face value
1.00 €
Sell price
1.00 €

Today, the sphere of customs in our territory is regulated uniformly on the European level, i.e. by the Community Customs Code, since the territory of the Slovak Republic is a part of the European Union customs territory. The Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, Financial Administration of the Slovak Republic, Criminal Office of the Financial Administration, and customs offices represent customs state administration bodies.
Since time immemorial, our territory has been a crossroad of significant trade routes. Great Moravia, the first state located in this area, had extensive business relations. One of the oldest customs regulations, particularly the Raffelstetten Customs Regulations (in Latin: Inquisitio de theloneis Raffelstettensis) has been preserved dating back to this period. Coming from 903 − 904, it was valid also within our territory and depicts import and export customs practice of the Great Moravian tradesmen. Therefore, at the occasion of the 1110th anniversary of its application, we symbolically commemorate beginnings and history of customs in our territory itself. They inspired the postage stamp and miniature sheet, as well.
The obverse and reverse of a silver half denarius of the Frankish king Charles the Simple from 898 − 929 and production of the mint Bledonis, situated in the French town Lons-le-Saunier, became its motive. It was found in 1965 within a survey of foundations of the St. Martin’s Church in Nitra on the Martin’s Hill (Martinský vrch). It represents a rare case documenting the use of a foreign coin as a means of payment within our territory. It is undoubtedly the oldest proof of occurrence of means of payment in our territory applied to improve international business relations and gradual replacement of the barter system with means of payment. The postage stamp coupons depict the patron of customs officers, St. Matthew, in the form of an angel taken from carolingian ivory carving and calligraphic mark of the Frankish king Louis the Child from the Raffelstetten Customs Regulations with a title of the original manuscript Inquisitio de Theloneis. It was preserved only in the form of a description from 1254 − 1265 named Codex traditionum ecclesiae Pataviensis ab Ottone de Lonsdorf and archived in the in Bavarian Main State Archive in Munich. The miniature sheet of the postage stamp completes the depiction of the evangelist Matthew, patron of customs officers, created according to period carolingian manuscripts of the Rheims School.  
Also inspired by a carolingian book painting of the tenth century, the FDC bears a motive of the most significant Frankish king Charles the Great and his son Pippin, representing a means of creation of legal edicts in the period of the Early Middle Ages. 
 
Marcel Šuštiak

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