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1000 Schilling Second issue
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within a rectangular ornamental frame presents a standing female figure holding a statuette of Pallas Athena, with an Alpine mountain panorama in the background. The Austrian coat of arms appears at the left. Denomination and issuer inscriptions are rendered in period Fraktur script. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a panoramic bird's-eye view vignette of the city of Salzburg, with its historic townscape and surrounding landscape rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Denomination numeral and issuer abbreviation appear within the design. |
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Austria's postwar monetary reconstruction moved in stages, and this 1947 1000 Schilling sits at a particularly fraught moment: the Allied occupation was still in force, the country had not yet signed a State Treaty, and the National Bank was operating under four-power oversight. High-denomination notes of this period are sometimes found with control stamps or cancellations applied during the currency exchanges of 1945 and 1947 — two separate reform actions within three years — which occasionally complicates clean attribution of surviving examples.
Fritz Zerritsch der Jüngere was one of the more accomplished Viennese graphic artists of the interwar and early postwar period, known for precise figurative work. His involvement signals this was not a rushed emergency printing.