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25 Schilling
| Issuer | Alliierte Militärbehörde |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Printer | Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, United States |
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| Obverse lettering | ALLIIERTE MILITÄRBEHÖRDE 25 SCHILLING FÜNFUNDZWANZIG SCHILLING SERIE 1944 IN OESTERREICH AUSGEGEBEN 25 |
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| Variants | P#108a - Issued note P#108r - Replacement with small "x" to right of serial # |
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The Allied Military Authority schilling notes were printed in the United States for use in Austria following liberation — this 25 Schilling was part of the same program that produced parallel issues for the American, British, French, and Soviet occupation zones. Forbes Lithograph of Boston handled the job, a commercial printer pressed into wartime currency work rather than a specialist security printer.
The series drew immediate criticism for its crude lithographic quality, which made counterfeiting relatively straightforward. Austrian authorities were keen to replace the whole Allied Military issue as quickly as possible, and the schilling series was superseded by National Bank issues within a few years of the occupation beginning.