Catalog
200 Korona
| Issuer | Austro-Hungarian Bank (Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 200 Crowns (Koronás) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in bilingual German and Hungarian text on a lightly tinted ground with fine guilloche borders. At left, a circular vignette encloses a portrait of a young woman in classical dress, with the numeral '200' below the portrait medallion. The denomination is stated in large letterpress type as 'ZWEIHUNDERT KRONEN' and 'KÉTSZÁZ KORONA', flanked by the issuing authority's name in both languages, with the date 'WIEN, 27. OKTOBER 1918' appearing in the lower central area. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper, discernible when held to light. |
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The 200 Korona of 1918 was among the last issues authorized by the Austro-Hungarian Bank before the dissolution of the empire rendered the institution itself obsolete. When the armistice came in November 1918, the successor states — Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, and others — each scrambled to claim or quarantine circulating currency. Most applied ink stamps or perforations to distinguish "their" korona notes from those of neighboring states, a process that makes the unstamped form genuinely harder to find than the stamped variants in several series.
The Wilsenburg and Gulío signature combination places this at the very end of the bank's operational life.