100 Schilling

Austria's post-occupation monetary reconstruction was well underway by the time this series launched, but the Nationalbank remained cautious about note design changes — the 1969 100 Schilling retained conservative security specifications at a moment when several Western European central banks were beginning to adopt more sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures. The Oesterreichische Staatsdruckerei had printed Austrian currency almost without interruption since the nineteenth century, and the institutional conservatism shows.

Pick 145 ran for over a decade before replacement, meaning heavily circulated examples are the norm rather than the exception.