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1000 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Oesterreichisch-ungarischen Bank wofür dem Überbringer a vista TAUSEND KRONEN von der gefertigten Anstalt bezahlt werden. Wien, am 30 Okt 1918 OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK Hauptanstalt Wien Für verlorene Kassenscheine wird erst nach deren gerichtlicher Amortisierung Zahlung geleistet. Die Verfälschung oder Nachmachung von Kassenscheinen ist nach dem k.k. Gesetze strafbar. |
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| Protection description | Cancellation perforations visible across the central text area of the note. |
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The Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank's 1000 Kronen of 1918 was issued in the final year of a collapsing empire. With the Habsburg state disintegrating by November 1918, the successor states — Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, and others — each inherited large quantities of circulating Austro-Hungarian currency and faced the immediate problem of distinguishing "their" money from the rest. The solution was stamping or perforating: notes were overprinted or punched with national markings to claim them for a particular successor treasury.
The perforation security feature listed here likely refers to one such nationalizing cancellation rather than an original anti-counterfeiting measure. Unstamped 1918 notes were frequently rejected across the former empire's territories within months of issue.