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25 Korona
| Issuer | Austro-Hungarian Bank (Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Die Oesterreichish-Ungarishe bank zahlt gegen diese banknote bei ihren hauptanstalten in Wien und Budapest sofort auf verlagen FÜNFUNDZWANTIG KRONEN in gesetzlichem metalgelde. Oesterreichisch-Ungarishe bank Wien, 27. Oktober 1918 Vizegouverneur Generalrat Generalsekretär Az Osztrák-Magyar bank e bankjegyért bárki kívánságára azonnal fizet Bécsi és Budapesti főintézeteinél HUSZONÖT KORONA törvényes ércpénzt. Osztrák-Magyar bank Bécs, 1918. évi Október 27.-én Alkormányzó Főtanácsos Vezértitkár Diese Note wird bis 30. Juni 1919 gegen andere Banknoten umgetauscht. E jegy 1919. évi június 30.-áig más bankjegyekkel felcseréltetik Die Nachmachung der Banknoten wird gesetzlich bestraft. A bankjegyek utánzása a törvény szerint büntettetik (Translation: The Austrian-Hungarian bank will honour this banknote for 25 Crowns in coin at its main banks in Vienna and Budapest Austro-Hungarian bank Vienna, 1918. October 27. Vice-governor Governor Chief Secretary This note will be exchangeable for other banknotes until 30 June 1919 Counterfeiting banknotes is punishable by law) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and consists entirely of a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint pattern covering the full surface of the note, without any central vignette or figurative design, producing a uniform security ground of interlocking geometric wave motifs. |
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This note belongs to the strange administrative twilight between empire and republic. The Austro-Hungarian Bank continued issuing notes into 1919 under its old name even as the empire it served had ceased to exist — the armistice came in November 1918, but the currency apparatus kept running out of institutional inertia and practical necessity, with successor states scrambling to segregate "their" portion of the circulating money supply.
Several successor states, including Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, overstamped these notes with national markings to claim and control them before a formal currency conversion could be arranged. Unstamped examples consequently saw rapid attrition. The Pick 12 designation places this within the final Viennese issues before the bank was formally wound up.