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25 Korona
| Issuer | Austro-Hungarian Bank (Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 25 Crowns (Koronás) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a circular vignette enclosing a portrait of a young woman in three-quarter view, set within a fine guilloche border. The centre and right portion of the note carry bilingual text in German and Hungarian, with the denomination expressed as FÜNFUNDZWANZIG KRONEN and HUSZONÖT KORONA in bold letterpress. A small numeral 25 in an ornate frame appears at lower left, with serial numbers printed in blue at upper left and upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and consists entirely of a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint pattern covering the full surface of the note, without any central vignette or figurative design, producing a uniform security ground of interlocking geometric wave motifs. |
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This note belongs to the strange administrative twilight between empire and republic. The Austro-Hungarian Bank continued issuing notes into 1919 under its old name even as the empire it served had ceased to exist — the armistice came in November 1918, but the currency apparatus kept running out of institutional inertia and practical necessity, with successor states scrambling to segregate "their" portion of the circulating money supply.
Several successor states, including Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, overstamped these notes with national markings to claim and control them before a formal currency conversion could be arranged. Unstamped examples consequently saw rapid attrition. The Pick 12 designation places this within the final Viennese issues before the bank was formally wound up.