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10.000 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10.000 Kronen |
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| Obverse lettering | ZEHNTAUSEND KRONEN DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEI IHREN HAUPT-INSTITUTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT AUF VERLANGEN IN GESETZLICHEM METALLGELDE WIEN 2 NOVEMBER 1918 OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT |
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| Reverse lettering | 10.000 |
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This note occupies an awkward moment in monetary history. The Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank had effectively ceased to function as a joint institution following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in late 1918, yet it continued issuing notes into 1919 while successor states scrambled to establish their own currencies. The 10.000 Kronen denomination itself signals how badly the wartime inflation had eroded purchasing power — this was not a prestige note but a practical response to a collapsing monetary unit.
Several successor states, including Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, overstamped circulating Austro-Hungarian notes to claim them as their own currency before permanent replacements could be printed. Whether a given example of P#65 was overstamped or remained in Austrian circulation matters considerably to attribution and value.