The Allied Military Authority schilling notes were prepared in advance of the liberation of Austria and issued from 1944 as occupation currency — a parallel instrument to the contemporaneous AMC marks printed for Germany. Austria's case was administratively distinct: the country was treated as a liberated nation under the Moscow Declaration of 1943 rather than as a defeated enemy, a political distinction that shaped the separate note series but did little to ease the monetary chaos that followed.
De La Rue printed this series in London well before the end of hostilities. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — modest by any measure, but sufficient for a short-term occupation instrument never intended for long circulation.
The Allied Military Authority schilling notes were prepared in advance of the liberation of Austria and issued from 1944 as occupation currency — a parallel instrument to the contemporaneous AMC marks printed for Germany. Austria's case was administratively distinct: the country was treated as a liberated nation under the Moscow Declaration of 1943 rather than as a defeated enemy, a political distinction that shaped the separate note series but did little to ease the monetary chaos that followed.
De La Rue printed this series in London well before the end of hostilities. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — modest by any measure, but sufficient for a short-term occupation instrument never intended for long circulation.