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5 Schilling
| Issuer | Alliierte Militärbehörde |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 5 Schilling (5 ATS) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in deep purple and orange-red on cream paper, centred on a large ornate baroque cartouche of scrolling acanthus foliage and engine-turned guilloche work. Within the cartouche, the denomination text 'FÜNF SCHILLING' is rendered in bold orange-red intaglio lettering against a fine lathe-work background. Flanking oval panels to the left and right each bear the numeral '5' above the word 'SCHILLING' in orange-red, and the ghost image of the obverse lettering is visible through the paper as show-through from the printed face. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The Allied Military Authority schilling notes were printed in London for use in Austria following the 1945 liberation, though the 1944 date reflects when production was authorized and plates prepared — well before troops actually reached Vienna. The series was a joint Allied instrument, meaning the same designs circulated regardless of which occupation zone a given note ended up in: Soviet, American, British, or French.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the run to a reasonably secure specification given the circumstances, including a watermark — unusual for what was essentially emergency occupation currency.