200 Korona

The Austro-Hungarian Bank ordered this 200 Korona denomination in the final year of the war, when the monarchy's finances were collapsing under military expenditure and the note-printing presses were running far ahead of any credible backing. Ferdinand Schirnböck was the Bank's principal engraver for much of the prewar period, responsible for some of the most technically refined intaglio work in Central European banknote production — though by 1918, wartime constraints had visibly compressed production timelines.

The note survived the empire by only weeks in any practical sense. When the monarchy dissolved in November 1918, the successor states — Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and others — each overprinted or perforated circulating Austro-Hungarian notes to claim them as national currency and exclude foreign holders. Unoverprinted examples of this series were demonetized rapidly, which gives the emission date a particular finality.