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50 Coroane Transilvania (Siebenbürgen) and Banat
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian Krone (1919) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown-violet tones and divided into two distinct panels. The left panel carries multilingual inscriptions in nine languages listing the denomination, enclosed within an ornate border of spiral and geometric guilloche motifs. The right panel presents a central oval vignette with a female portrait similar in style to the obverse, flanked by decorative floral and geometric underprint elements, with the principal German-language text and the issuing bank's title below, along with facsimile signatures for the Generalrat, Gouverneur, and Generalsekretär. |
| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG KRONEN 50 DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEI IHREN HAUPTANSTALTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT AUF VERLANGEN FÜNFZIG KRONEN IN GESETZLICHEM METALLGELDE WIEN 2. JÄNNER 1914 OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK GENERALRAT GOUVERNEUR GENERALSEKRETÄR PADESAT KORUN PIECDZIESIAT KORON PETDESET KRON PEDESET KRUNA ПЯТЪДЕСЯТЪ КОРОН CINQUANTA CORONE ПЕДЕСЕТ КРУНА CINCIZECI COROANE DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT |
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This note belongs to a brief and administratively chaotic episode: the Romanian provisional overprint issues of 1919, applied to existing Austro-Hungarian banknotes to make them legal tender in territories — Transylvania and the Banat — absorbed after the collapse of Austria-Hungary. The overprint was a stopgap while Bucharest worked toward full monetary integration, which was formalized through the 1920 currency conversion.
The Banat presents its own complication: the region was partitioned between Romania, Yugoslavia, and a tiny sliver going to Hungary under the Treaty of Trianon, meaning this note's geographic scope was politically unsettled at the very moment of issue.