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50 Schilling
| Issuer | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Value | 50 Schilling (50 ATS) |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Josephinum, the former Imperial and Royal Josephinian Military Academy of Surgery in Vienna, rendered in a detailed architectural engraving showing the neoclassical facade with a statue in the forecourt. Multicolour guilloche patterns with concentric curvilinear elements fill the background on both sides of the building vignette. Denomination numerals appear in the upper left and lower right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | JOSEPHINUM - WIEN FÜNFZIG SCHILLING 50 (Translation: Josephinum - Vienna Fifty Schilling) |
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Robert Kalina designed this note years before he received the commission that made him internationally known — the original euro banknote series. The 50 Schilling was among his earlier ONB work, and the same disciplined approach to layout that later defined the euro designs is already visible here in the structure of the series.
The Oesterreichische Nationalbank printed this in-house, one of relatively few central banks in Europe maintaining full internal production at that point. Security provision was modest by later standards — watermark and thread only, no optically variable elements — reflecting the state of Austrian anti-counterfeiting practice before the major upgrades of the 1990s that preceded euro transition.