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20 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Reference(s) | P#14 |
| Obverse description | German-language face of the note, bearing the overprint 'II. AUFLAGE' (2nd Edition) in a rectangular frame at lower left, applied over the original P#13 design. The left half carries a vignette of a young woman in three-quarter portrait set within an ornate cartouche framed by the large numeral '20' on either side, with a guilloche underprint throughout. The right half bears the issuer's text in German, 'ZWANZIG KRONEN', the date '2. JÄNNER 1913', the place of issue 'WIEN', and the denomination repeated in multiple languages along the lower panel, with three manuscript signatures below the issuer name. |
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| Reverse lettering | II. KIADÁS (Translation: 2nd edition) HUSZ KORONA TÖRVÉNYESÉRCPÉNZT BÉCS 1913 JANUÁR 2-ÁN AZ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK E JEGYEK ÉRTÉKÉT SAJÁT BÉCSI ÉS BUDAPESTI FŐINTÉZETEINÉL OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK A BANKJEGYEK UTÁNZÁSA A TÖRVÉNY ÁLTAL BÜNTETTETIK |
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The Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank's 1913 20 Kronen belongs to a series that was already obsolete by design before it could settle into ordinary commerce. Austria-Hungary's dissolution in 1918 meant these notes were suddenly the currency of a state that no longer existed, and the successor republics handled the situation with characteristic disorder — Czechoslovakia, Austria, and other successor states each stamped or perforated surviving notes to claim them as their own, creating a chaotic patchwork of overprinted examples that outnumber clean originals in many collections.
Unstamped examples in original condition are correspondingly harder to source.