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200 Korona
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank (Osztrák-Magyar Bank) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is dominated by an intaglio portrait vignette of a young woman in three-quarter view, set within an oval guilloche frame with the numeral 200 below. The central and right fields carry bilingual text in German and Hungarian, with the denomination rendered in large letterpress as ZWEIHUNDERT KRONEN and KÉTSZÁZ KORONA, flanked by serial number and series letter in red. The date WIEN, 27. OKTOBER 1918 appears near the lower centre, accompanied by two facsimile signatures of bank officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEIHREN HAUPTANSTALTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT AUF VERLANGEN AZ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK E BANKJEGYÉRT BÁRKI KÍVÁNSÁGÁRA AZONNAL FIZET BÉCSI ÉS BUDAPESTI FŐINTÉZETEINEL ZWEIHUNDERT KRONEN KÉTSZÁZ KORONA IN GESETZLICHEM METALLGELDE TÖRVÉNYES ÉRCPÉNZÜL OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ✦ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK WIEN, 27. OKTOBER 1918 / BÉCS, 1918. ÉVI OKTÓBER 27.-ÉN Diese Note wird bis 30. Juni 1919 gegen andere Banknoten umgetauscht. E jegy 1919. évi junius 30.-áig más bankjegyekkel felcseréltetik. Die Nachmachung der Banknoten wird gesetzlich bestraft. ✦ A bankjegyek utánzása a törvény szerint büntettetik. |
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The Austro-Hungarian Bank ordered this 200 Korona denomination in the final year of the war, when the monarchy's finances were collapsing under military expenditure and the note-printing presses were running far ahead of any credible backing. Ferdinand Schirnböck was the Bank's principal engraver for much of the prewar period, responsible for some of the most technically refined intaglio work in Central European banknote production — though by 1918, wartime constraints had visibly compressed production timelines.
The note survived the empire by only weeks in any practical sense. When the monarchy dissolved in November 1918, the successor states — Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and others — each overprinted or perforated circulating Austro-Hungarian notes to claim them as national currency and exclude foreign holders. Unoverprinted examples of this series were demonetized rapidly, which gives the emission date a particular finality.