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50 Coroane Transilvania (Siebenbürgen) and Banat
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the German-language text of the Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank's payment obligation, set within a symmetrical guilloche border with large "50" numerals at all four corners. The central panel lists the denomination in eight languages: Czech (PADESAT KORUN), Polish (PIECDZIESIAT KORON), Slovenian (PETDESET KRON), Croatian (PEDESET KRUNA), Bulgarian (ПЯТЪДЕСЕТЪ КОРОН), Italian (CINQUANTA CORONE), Serbian (ПЕДЕСЕТ КРУНА), and Romanian (CINCIZECI COROANE). The series designation and anti-counterfeiting warning in German appear in the upper and lower registers respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 SERIE Die Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank zahlt gegen diese Banknote bei ihren Hauptanstalten in Wien und Budapest sofort auf Verlangen Funfzig Kronen in gesetzlichem Metallgelde Wien 2 Janner 1902 Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank GENERALRAT GOUVERNEUR GENERALSEKRETÄR DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT PADESAT KORUN PIECDZIESIAT KORON PETDESET KRON PEDESET KRUNA ПЯТЪДЕСЕТЪ КОРОН CINQUANTA CORONE ПЕДЕСЕТ КРУНА CINCIZECI COROANE |
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This note belongs to a brief and politically charged episode: Romania's provisional stamping of Austro-Hungarian 50 Korona notes to assert monetary control over newly acquired territories following the 1918 armistice. Transylvania and the Banat had not yet been formally incorporated — the Treaty of Trianon wasn't signed until June 1920 — so these overprinted notes functioned as an administrative instrument ahead of any legal settlement, circulating in a region whose sovereignty was still technically contested.
The Banat itself was disputed between Romania and Yugoslavia throughout this period, and the overprint applied to both territories together reflects Bucharest's confident assumption of full control before the diplomats had finished negotiating.