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5 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1927 |
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| Value | 5 Schilling |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows the terraced iron ore mine at Erzberg, near Eisenerz in Styria, framed within a rectangular border with crossed mining hammer motifs at upper left and right. The denomination numeral '5' and title 'Fünf Schilling' appear in bold Gothic script below the vignette, set against an elaborate guilloche underprint pattern in blue-green. The serial number appears in red at lower right, with the check number printed below in black. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 Fünf Schilling Die Nachmachung der Banknoten wird geſetzlich beſtraft. |
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Austria's postwar hyperinflation had destroyed the krone so thoroughly that by 1924 the country required a League of Nations bailout and an entirely new currency to function. This 5 Schilling note belongs to the stabilization series issued under that reconstructed monetary framework, with the Nationalbank itself operating the presses in Vienna — an unusual degree of end-to-end domestic production for the period.
Rudolf Junk and Karl Sterrer were both well-regarded figures in Viennese applied arts, and Zenziger's engraving work on this series is considered among the finer intaglio output from the interwar Austrian press.