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5 Kronen
| Issuer | Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEI IHREN HAUPTANSTALTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT VERLANGEN FÜNF KRONEN IN GESETZLICHEM METALLGELDE WIEN, 1. OKTOBER 1918 OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT PET KORUN PIAT KORON PET KRONEN CINQUE CORONE |
| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse layout, printed in a similar red-brown guilloche pattern. Two female allegorical portrait vignettes in oval frames appear at left and right, with a central cartouche bearing the Hungarian royal arms and the Hungarian-language text of the issuing authority, denomination ÖT KORONA, and the date BÉCS, 1916. OKTÓBER 1-ÉN. Serial numbers appear in the lower left and lower right corners. A central warning panel against counterfeiting is printed at the foot. |
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The Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank's 1918 note issues were printed in the final weeks of a collapsing empire. By November 1918, the Austro-Hungarian state had ceased to exist, and the successor states — Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the rump Austrian republic — each inherited vast quantities of these notes. Most immediately overstamped them to claim the circulating stock before it could be drained across new borders, a frantic fiscal partition conducted with rubber stamps and bureaucratic urgency.
The 5 Kronen denomination was among the lowest-value notes still in issue by war's end, and heavy overstamping by multiple successor states means that genuinely unaltered examples are less common than the survival rate might suggest.