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5000 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| In circulation to | 28 February 2002 |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFTAUSEND SCHILLING OESTERREICHISCHE 5000 NATIONALBANK WIEN · AM 4 · JÄNNER 1988 PRÄSIDENT GENERALDIREKTOR GENERALRAT WOLFGANG A. MOZART |
| Reverse description | The principal vignette presents an architectural elevation of the Vienna State Opera (Staatsoper), rendered in detailed intaglio engraving with fine crosshatching to convey depth and stonework texture. The denomination 5000 and the inscription FÜNFTAUSEND SCHILLING appear in bold letterpress, with the legend STAATSOPER identifying the subject below the architectural image. A guilloche underprint in complementary tones frames the composition across the note's field. |
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The 5000 Schilling was the highest denomination in Austrian circulation during the late Schilling period, and its 1988 issue came at a moment of relative monetary confidence — Austria had largely tamed the inflation of the postwar decades and the note functioned as a genuine store-value instrument rather than an emergency measure. Robert Kalina designed the series, the same designer who would later win the European Central Bank's competition for the original euro banknote designs.
The Oesterreichische Staatsdruckerei has printed Austrian currency in Vienna since the nineteenth century, one of the few national printers to have operated continuously through two world wars without relocating production.