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10 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Currency | Second Schilling (1945-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Zehn-Schilling OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK WIEN AM 2. JÄNNER 1950 PRÄSIDENT GENERALRAT GENERALDIREKTOR RUPERT FRANKE inv. et sculp. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Zehn-Schilling Die Nachmachung der Banknoten wird geſetzlich beſtraft 2. AUFLAGE E. AMADEUS-DIER fec. RUPERT FRANKE sculp. |
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Austria's 1950 Schilling series arrived in deeply uncertain circumstances — the country was still under four-power Allied occupation, which did not formally end until the State Treaty of 1955. The National Bank was printing and issuing currency for a sovereign institution that technically operated under occupation authority, a legal and monetary ambiguity that shaped every policy decision of the early 1950s.
Rupert Franke handled both the design and engraving of the obverse — an unusual consolidation of roles that gave the face of the note a unified intaglio character rare in postwar European small denominations. The 10 Schilling was the workhorse of daily commerce at this denomination, and circulated hard.