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10 Kronen Danube State
| Issuer | Österreichische Staatswohltätigkeitslotterie |
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| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Oval vignette at right with a young woman's portrait in three-quarter view, set within an intricate guilloche underprint in green and pink tones. Austrian imperial eagle vignette below the portrait; large numeral '27' at centre left within the guilloche border. Lottery title and prize information in letterpress at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface design in deep red tones with an all-over fine geometric guilloche underprint across the entire field. Large denomination numerals '10' at left and right within ornamental cartouches; a central circular rosette guilloche medallion with a floral motif forms the principal decorative element. |
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The Österreichische Staatswohltätigkeitslotterie — the Austrian State Charity Lottery — issued these notes not as circulating currency but as lottery tickets denominated in Kronen, a currency that had already been replaced by the Schilling in 1925. Using the obsolete Kronen denomination six years after its demonetization was a deliberate pricing fiction, keeping face values impressively large while the real cost remained trivial.
The "Danube State" branding reflects the brief cultural movement of the early 1930s promoting pan-Danubian identity as Austria searched for a coherent post-Habsburg national character — an awkward exercise given what was coming politically within the decade.