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10 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| In circulation to | 30 April 1952 |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a young woman's head in left profile, set within an arched decorative frame. The coat of arms of the Republic of Austria appears alongside the portrait. Inscriptions in period Fraktur script identify the issuing bank, denomination, and date, with the value numeral 10 repeated in the design. |
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| Reverse description | Text-based design rendered in regular roman typeface, repeating the denomination, issuing bank name, place, and date in a structured layout. The value numeral 10 appears within the composition, forming the primary visual element of this face. |
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Austria's first postwar schilling notes were rushed into circulation before the country had stabilized politically or economically — the Allied occupation was still dividing Vienna into four administrative zones when this note appeared. The Oesterreichische Nationalbank had been reestablished by provisional government decree in July 1945, and getting currency into circulation quickly was a practical necessity, not a considered monetary exercise.
Josef Seger, a Viennese graphic artist, was responsible for several denominations in this 1945–46 series. Print quality across the run is notoriously uneven, a direct consequence of postwar material shortages affecting paper stock and ink consistency.