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1000 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | TAUSEND KRONEN DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEI IHREN HAUPTANSTALTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT AUF VERLANGEN IN GESETZLICHEM METALLGELD WIEN 2. JÄNNER 1902 OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK TISÍC KORUN EZER KORONA TЯЧУ КРОН MILLE CORONE GENERALRAT GOUVERNEUR GENERALSEKRETÄR DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Austria-Hungary collapsed before this note could serve its intended purpose. The Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank issued the 1000 Kronen series as the empire was disintegrating, and the new successor states — Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania — each dealt with the resulting currency chaos by overstamping circulating notes to claim them as their own. Unstamped Austrian examples like this one continued to circulate in the rump Austrian republic under the inflation conditions that steadily eroded the Krone's purchasing power through the early 1920s.
The 1919 dating places this note in the immediate post-armistice period, before Austria's hyperinflationary spiral peaked in 1922.