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1000 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Second Schilling (1945-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Ornate rectangular border encloses a central vignette of a standing female figure holding a statuette of Pallas Athena, rendered in intaglio. The Austrian coat of arms appears to the left of the central design. The denomination and bank name are inscribed in archaic Fraktur script, with the date 29 Mai 1945 and a legal warning against counterfeiting. |
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| Variants | P#120a - Issued note P#120s - Specimen |
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Austria emerged from World War II without a functioning central bank administration, and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank was formally re-established by the provisional government in July 1945. This note belongs to the first postwar series issued under that reconstituted authority — a high denomination at a moment when wartime inflation had already eroded purchasing power significantly.
Fritz Zerritsch der Jüngere was a Viennese sculptor and graphic artist whose design work for the ONB spanned several series. The 1945 issue was produced under difficult immediate postwar conditions, and early examples show inconsistent print quality as a result.