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| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | Second Schilling (1945-2001) |
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| Obverse description | At centre-left, the coat of arms of Austria is set within the left field, accompanied by a winged putto sounding a trumpet. A female head in profile facing left occupies the central vignette, rendered in intaglio with fine engraved line work characteristic of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hundert Schilling Oesterreichische Nationalbank WIEN AM 3. JÄNNER 1949 PRÄSIDENT GENERALRAT GENERALDIREKTOR AMADEUS-DIER fec. RUPERT FRANKE sculp. |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a Danube Nymph reclining alongside a putto, with a panoramic view of the city of Vienna and the Danube river rendered in fine intaglio engraving as a background scene. The composition is executed in the classical allegorical tradition typical of Austrian banknote design of the mid-twentieth century. |
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