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100 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Value | 100 Crowns (100 Kronen) |
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| Obverse description | The German-language face carries two allegorical vignettes flanking a central text panel: at left, a seated female figure with a scroll accompanied by a boy and a globe evokes learning and commerce, while at right a standing male figure at an anvil with a hammer personifies industry. The small coat of arms of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy is positioned at upper left, with the denomination and date inscribed in German. The face value is repeated in eight additional languages of the monarchy beneath the principal legend. |
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| Reverse description | The Hungarian-language face mirrors the compositional arrangement of the obverse with distinct allegorical vignettes: at left, a seated female figure holding a book beside a boy symbolises knowledge, while at right a standing male figure with a scythe and agricultural implements personifies husbandry. The middle coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hungary is placed at upper left, with all inscriptions rendered exclusively in Hungarian. |
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The Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank's 1902 series was a deliberate assertion of institutional parity between Vienna and Budapest. Hegedűs, a Hungarian designer, was selected in part to satisfy the ongoing political tension over Magyar representation within the Dual Monarchy's shared financial institutions — his involvement was not merely aesthetic but diplomatic.
Notes of this type circulated through the First World War and into the chaotic post-dissolution period, during which both Austria and the successor states applied overprints to segregate their respective currency pools. Unoverprinted survivors were demonetized and largely destroyed, making clean examples from original Austro-Hungarian circulation genuinely uncommon.