Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
|---|---|
| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Second Schilling (1945-2001) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a woman in traditional Austrian national costume with an ornate headdress, set against a landscape vignette of rolling hills and a distant castle. Decorative floral and foliate borders frame the composition on both sides, with numeral corner pieces in all four corners. The denomination in Gothic script occupies the lower centre, above the issuing bank name and date of issue, with two manuscript signatures below. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Grossglockner mountain peak, with the Austrian coat of arms positioned above. Ornamental borders composed of floral and fruit motifs frame the left and right margins, with the denomination numeral repeated in corner cartouches. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Austria's 1945 10 Schilling was issued under extraordinarily compressed circumstances — the Nationalbank was reconstituted in April 1945 while fighting was still ongoing in parts of the country, and a functional currency was needed almost immediately to prevent complete economic collapse in the Allied occupation zones. The result was a note produced in haste, using pre-existing plate work.
Rudolf Zenziger and Johann Salbaba were both engravers at the Austrian State Printing Office, and the note was produced domestically — a detail worth noting given how many Austrian issues of the immediate postwar period relied on foreign printers. Arthur Brusenbauch was a regular designer for the Staatsdruckerei across multiple series.
Pick 115 was superseded quickly as monetary reform progressed through 1945 and 1946.