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1 Schilling
| Issuer | Alliierte Militärbehörde |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Size | 115 × 59 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on a pale ground and composed entirely of geometric guilloche work, with three interlocking rosette medallions arranged horizontally across the note. The large central medallion encloses the numeral '1' within a cartouche surmounted by the word 'SCHILLING', while the two smaller flanking medallions each contain the numeral '1' within their own guilloche frames inscribed 'SCHILLING'. A fine green rectangular border frames the entire composition, with a faint watermark pattern visible in the unprinted margins. |
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| Variants | P#103a - Forbes Lithograph Corp. Watermark: MILITARY AUTHORITY barely visible, without wavy lines P#103b - Printed in England. Watermark: Wavy lines |
| Comments |
The Allied Military Authority schilling notes were produced ahead of the liberation of Austria, which didn't come until 1945 — meaning these notes sat in storage for months before reaching circulation. The series was jointly authorized by the four occupying powers, an awkward arrangement that nonetheless produced a coherent printing program administered through De La Rue in London.
Austria's postwar currency situation was genuinely chaotic: Reichsmarks, occupation schillings, and later the 1945 domestic issue all circulated simultaneously in different zones, and sorting out what was legal tender where became a bureaucratic problem that persisted for years.