Catalog
100 Korona
| Issuer | Hungarian State (Magyar Állam) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| 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) | Ferdinand Schirnböck |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse retains the original Austro-Hungarian Bank design without overprint, with the large Gothic-style denomination "HUNDERT KRONEN" printed in blue-grey letterpress on the left panel, accompanied by the issuing authority "OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK" and the date "WIEN 2 JÄNNER 1910". The serial series number appears below. The right side mirrors the obverse with the same intaglio portrait vignette of the young woman within the Koloman Moser Art Nouveau decorative frame, and the multilingual denomination inscription appears along the lower margin in Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Croatian, Romanian, and Italian. |
| Reverse lettering | DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEI IHREN HAUPTANSTALTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT AUF VERLANGEN HUNDERT KRONEN IN GESETZLICHEM METALLGELDE WIEN 2 JÄNNER 1910. OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK SERIE 1015 DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GERICHTLICH BESTRAFT STO KORUN · STO KORON · STO KRON · STO KRUNA · СТО КРОНА · CENTO CORONE · UNA SUTA COROANE KOLOMAN MOSER F. SCHIRNBÖCK |
| 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 |
The Magyar Állam's 100 Korona of 1920 was printed in Vienna despite Hungary having formally separated from Austria in the post-war settlement — a practical concession to the fact that the Österreichische Staatsdruckerei remained the only nearby facility capable of producing currency at the required quality and scale. The political awkwardness of this arrangement was considerable, given that the 1920 Treaty of Trianon had stripped Hungary of two-thirds of its territory and left its new government scrambling to establish independent institutions.
Koloman Moser, one of the founding figures of the Vienna Secession, had designed the underlying plate work before the war, which is why the aesthetic owes more to prewar Vienna than to Budapest. Schirnböck's engraving retains that Secessionist clarity in the line work.