50 Schilling

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.