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10 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1933 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a woman in traditional Wachau regional costume, rendered in intaglio. The ruins of Aggstein Castle on the Danube are visible in the background. A decorative border of grapevine motifs frames the note, with the denomination and bank title inscriptions in period fraktur lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 Zehn Schilling 10 Die Nachmachung der Banknoten wird geſetz- lich beſtraft A. BRUSENBAUCH INV. R. ZENZIGER SCULP. |
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Austria's early 1930s were defined by banking collapse and political fracture — the Credit-Anstalt failure in 1931 sent shockwaves through the entire Central European financial system, and the Nationalbank was still managing the fallout when this note entered circulation. The timing matters: 1933 was also the year Dollfuss suspended parliamentary government, making this a note issued under a democracy in its final weeks.
Brusenbauch and Zenziger were the Nationalbank's core creative pairing for interwar Austrian paper, their work distinguished by fine intaglio linework done entirely in-house rather than outsourced to the major foreign security printers. Zenziger's engraving is precise and unshowy — a deliberate contrast to the more ornate German and Hungarian notes of the same period.