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1000 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Printer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette occupying the right portion of the note presents a panoramic cityscape of Salzburg, with Hohensalzburg Fortress perched on the hill above the old town and the Salzach River in the foreground, executed in fine engraved line work. To the left, three stacked guilloche medallions bear the denomination numerals 1000 and the monogram OeNB within intricate lathe-work rosettes. The whole composition is enclosed by a multi-layered geometric border with ornamental corner pieces, and engraver and designer credits appear in small text at the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#98a - Issued note P#98s - Specimen |
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The Oesterreichische Nationalbank printed this note in-house — unusual for a high-value issue of the period, when most European central banks still contracted out to specialist security printers. Fritz Zerritsch der Jüngere was a Viennese sculptor and applied artist whose work ran through the Wiener Werkstätte orbit, and his involvement gave the note a distinctly Austrian Modernist character that separates it visually from contemporaneous issues elsewhere in Central Europe.
The timing matters. Austria in 1930 was structurally fragile — the Creditanstalt collapse was barely a year away. This denomination, the highest in the series, circulated through an economy already deep in deflationary stress before the banking crisis made it worse.