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25 Korona
| Issuer | Osztrák-Magyar Bank (Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 25 Crowns (Koronás) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in deep blue on a light ground, with a central oval vignette at left containing a portrait of a young woman facing three-quarters right, encircled by a decorative border and the numeral 25 below. Bilingual text in German and Hungarian occupies the central and upper fields, with the denomination rendered in bold letterpress as FÜNFUNDZWANZIG KRONEN and HUSZONÖT KORONA across the centre. The date WIEN, 27. OKTOBER 1918 / BÉCS, 1918. ÉVI OKTÓBER 27.-ÉN appears in the lower field alongside two manuscript signatures and their printed titles, with serial numbers printed in red at upper left and upper right. |
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| Protection description | Dense wavy-line guilloche microtext pattern covering the entire reverse surface as a security underprint. |
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The Austro-Hungarian Bank issued this 25 Korona in 1918, the final year of the Monarchy's existence — the currency itself outlasted the empire by only weeks. When the Habsburg state dissolved in November 1918, successor nations including Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania each stamped or overprinted circulating notes to claim them as their own currency pending new issues, and many 1918-dated notes received multiple different stampings as they crossed the chaotic new borders.
Pick 13 is among the last designs the Bank ever authorized. Some examples show stamp ink bleed-through from the overprinting process, which affects perceived condition on an otherwise sound note.