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2 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 124 × 84 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face of the underlying 1917 Austro-Hungarian issue (P-21) printed in red on white paper, with octagonal portrait vignettes of a young woman at left and right within an ornate guilloche border. The central panel carries the denomination ZWEI KRONEN in large bold letterpress, flanked by multilingual denomination panels in Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian, Croatian, and other languages of the Empire. A black letterpress overprint reading DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH appears across the upper portion of the note, with the numeral 2 rendered in green above it, asserting Austrian state authority after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Three facsimile signatures of bank officials — Gouverneur, Generalrat, and Generalsekretär — appear above the Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank arms in the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH ZWEI KRONEN IN GESETZLICHEM METALLGELDE. WIEN, 1. MÄRZ 1917. OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK DVĚ KORUNY DWIE KORONY АВИ КОРОНИ DUE CORONE DVE KRONE DVIJE KRUNE АВИЈЕКРУНЕ DOUE CORDANE DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT (Translation: GERMAN AUSTRIA / TWO KRONEN / IN LEGAL METAL CURRENCY. VIENNA, 1 MARCH 1917. / AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BANK / Two Crowns in Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian) |
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Pick 50 was not a new design — the Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank issued this note on the existing 1917 2 Kronen plate, but the 1919 date reflects the post-Armistice extension of Habsburg currency into the successor states. Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and others all inherited this same note simultaneously, each scrambling to overprint or stamp their portions of the common currency as the empire dissolved around them. Unoverprinted Austrian examples circulated alongside stamped Czechoslovak and Yugoslav variants, sometimes interchangeably, during the chaotic currency partition of 1919–1920.
The low face value meant overprinting costs were rarely considered worthwhile, and many circulated unmarked for months.