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100 Schilling Second issue
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing laureate and veiled female allegorical figure — representing the sciences — with a star on her forehead, set within an ornate engraved frame. At left, the Austrian coat of arms appears above the denomination. The composition is executed in classical intaglio engraving with decorative guilloche borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hundert Schilling Oeſterreichiſche Nationalbank Wien, am 29 Mai 1945 DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNO- TEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT. ZWEITE AUSGABE (Translation: One Hundred Schilling National Bank of Austria Vienna, 29 May 1945 The copying of banknotes will be punished under the law. Second Issue) |
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Austria's 1945 100 Schilling was issued under Allied occupation, with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank reconstituted almost immediately after the war's end — Austria having been declared the first victim of Nazi aggression under the 1943 Moscow Declaration, a legal and political framing that had direct consequences for how quickly its central bank was permitted to resume operations. The second issue designation distinguishes it from an earlier series recalled as part of the postwar currency reform intended to suppress the enormous volume of Reichsmarks and occupation scrip flooding the country.
Wilhelm Dachauer was a Vienna-trained painter and graphic artist whose work predated the Anschluss. His involvement here reflects a deliberate effort to restore Austrian cultural identity to the currency.