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100 Coroane Transilvania (Siebenbürgen) and Banat
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 100 Coroane |
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| Obverse description | Hungarian-language face of the Austro-Hungarian Bank's 1912-dated 100 Korona note, overprinted for Romanian administration of Transylvania and the Banat. The right half carries an oval intaglio vignette portrait of a young woman in Art Nouveau style, set within elaborate guilloche scrollwork, with the denomination numeral '100' below; the left half bears the large bold inscription 'SZÁZ KORONA' above two manuscript facsimile signatures. A circular violet 'ROMANIA TIMBRU SPECIAL' overprint stamp is applied at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | AZ OSZTRAK MAGYAR BANK E BANKJEGYERT BARKI KIVANSAGARA AZONNAL FIZET BECSI BUDAPESTI FOINTEZETEINEL SZAZ KORONA TORVENYES ERCZPENZT BECS 1912 JANUAR 2AN OSZTRAK MAGYAR BANK FOTANACSOS KORMANYZO VEZERTITKAR 100 100 A BANKJEGYEK UTANZASA A TORVENY SZERINT BUNTETTIK ROMANIA TIMBRU SPECIAL |
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This note belongs to the provisional currency issued by Romania immediately following the 1918–1919 annexation of Transylvania and the Banat. Rather than introduce Romanian lei outright, Romanian authorities overstamped existing Austro-Hungarian banknotes with text identifying the new administering power — a faster solution than printing entirely new currency for a population still holding Krone-denominated paper.
The overprint itself is the entire story here. The Romanian government applied stamps to Austrian-issue Kronen notes to assert financial control over territories that had, days earlier, been part of a different empire. Acceptance was uneven; many locals remained skeptical of the new administration's instruments well into 1920.
Pick catalogues this under Romanian provisional issues, though the underlying note is Austro-Hungarian in origin.