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1000 Korona
| Issuer | Hungarian State (overprint on Austro-Hungarian Bank note) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The German-language reverse of the base Austro-Hungarian Bank note, printed in blue on pale paper with the same elaborate guilloche rosette border as the obverse. At upper centre, an intaglio vignette of the Austro-Hungarian double-headed eagle; flanking text panels list the denomination in eight languages. The large denomination inscription TAUSEND KRONEN appears at centre in letterpress, with two guilloche underprint panels to either side. To the right, the same oval intaglio portrait of a flower-garlanded woman repeated in the note's characteristic Art Nouveau style. Three facsimile signatures are placed below the central text panel under the designations GENERALRAT, GOUVERNEUR, and GENERALSEKRETÄR. |
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| Variants | P#31x(1) - forged handstamp, cancelled additional stamp with number: "Stempel wurde von der kön.-ung. Staatsdruckerei in Budapest laut Mitteilung der Oesterreichisch-ungarischen Bank, Hauptanstalt in Budapest, als unecht befunden." (Stamp has been verified as not genuine by the Royal Hungarian Governmental Printing Works in Budapest according to notification by the Main Branch of the Austro-Hungarian Bank in Budapest) P#31x(2) - forged handstamp, cancelled with cross without additional stamp |
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After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, successor states faced an immediate practical problem: there was no new currency ready, and the old Austro-Hungarian Krone notes were circulating across multiple newly sovereign territories simultaneously. Hungary's solution was to overstamp existing Austro-Hungarian Bank notes with a Hungarian government stamp, legally transforming them into Hungarian State obligations. The overstamp effectively severed the note from its Viennese issuing authority and repatriated it — on paper, at least — as national currency.
The 1920 date reflects the administrative processing of these overprints, not a new printing. Rössler and Leffler's original plate work belongs entirely to the prewar imperial series.