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100 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1954 |
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| Designer(s) | Josef Franz Renner |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio vignette of Austrian dramatist and poet Franz Grillparzer in left-facing bust portrait. At the lower margin, botanical vignettes include a shoot of alpine daisy (Leucanthemopsis alpina) and moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia), flanked by a quill and a theatrical mask at lower right, European chestnut (Castanea sativa) foliage to the right, and a motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) spray to the left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 HUNDERT SCHILLING DÜRNSTEIN DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT J. F. RENNER fec. RUDOLPH TOTH sculp. |
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Austria's postwar monetary reconstruction moved in stages — the 1945 Schilling reintroduction used provisional overprints, the 1947 series addressed the immediate currency reform, and by 1954 the Oesterreichische Nationalbank was finally in a position to issue something with considered design work behind it. This note belongs to that stabilization phase, when the occupying powers had only recently relinquished financial controls following the 1955 State Treaty.
Alfred Nefe and Rudolf Toth were both staff engravers working for the Austrian State Printing House, and the division of engraving labor between obverse and reverse was standard practice there. The watermark security on this series is relatively straightforward by later Austrian standards.