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100.000 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 100.000 Kronen |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Oesterreichisch-ungarischen Bank wofür dem Überbringer am 3. April 1919 HUNDERTTAUSEND KRONEN K 100.000 Wien, am 3. Oktober 1918 OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK Hauptanstalt Wien |
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| Reverse lettering | Pokladniční poukázka Rakousko-uherské banky na stotisíce korun. Blagajniška nakaznica Avstro-ogrske banke za stotisíce kron. Kasowa assignata Banku Austryacko-wegierskiego na sto tysięcy koron. Blagajnijska doznačnica Austro-ugarske banke na sto tísuénih kruna. Касовая ассигнатa Австрийско-угорского Банка на сто тысяч крон. Благајничка дозначница Аустро-угарске банке на сто тиłуha крона. Buono di Cassa della Banca Austro-Ungarica per Centomila Corone. Billet de cassâ al Băncî Austro-Ungară de O sutâ de mii de Coroane. |
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The 100.000 Kronen was not a denomination that existed in peacetime imagination — it materialized because the Austro-Hungarian monetary system was already disintegrating before the armistice was signed. Wartime spending had driven note circulation from roughly 3 billion Kronen in 1914 to over 30 billion by late 1918, and the Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank was printing denominations of a size it would never have contemplated a decade earlier.
The bank itself ceased to function as a unified institution with the collapse of the Habsburg state in November 1918. Successor states — Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and others — each stamped or overprinted circulating Kronen notes to claim them as national currency before eventually replacing them entirely. Whether this specific note was stamped or left unmodified depended entirely on where it happened to be when the empire ended.