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200 Korona
| Issuer | Osztrák-Magyar Bank (Austro-Hungarian Bank) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 200 Crowns (Koronás) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface trial print in monochrome sepia on plain unprinted paper, issued by the Budapest branch of the Austro-Hungarian Bank. A large guilloche rosette dominates the centre with the numeral 200 inscribed within, flanked by circular medallions repeating the denomination, while a naturalistic floral branch vignette occupies the left centre. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower left beneath the branch designation, with the date BUDAPEST 1918 NOVEMBER 3 at lower left and an anti-counterfeiting warning at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | AZ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK BUDAPESTI FŐINTÉZETE E BANKJEGYÉRT BÁRKI KÍVÁNSÁGÁRA AZONNAL FIZET KÉTSZÁZ KORONA TÖRVÉNYES ÉRCZPÉNZT. BUDAPEST 1918 NOVEMBER 3 OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK BUDAPESTI FŐINTÉZET A BANKJEGYEK UTÁNZÁSA A TÖRVÉNY SZERINT BÜNTETTETIK |
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The Austro-Hungarian Bank issued this 200 Korona in 1918 under conditions of total fiscal collapse — the monarchy was already dissolving by the time most of these notes reached circulation. With the armistice signed in November 1918, the successor states immediately moved to stamp or overstamp their inherited note stocks to distinguish "their" currency from the common pool, which means genuinely unstamped examples of P#17 are now spread across what became Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Romania.
Czechoslovakia was particularly aggressive in its early 1919 stamping campaign, perforating and rubber-stamping notes within days of the political separation.