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17 notes · 1913–1995
20 Kronen, Austro-Hungarian Bank, 1913
— · OM-00147 · G
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00147
- Series year
- 1913
- Actually issued
- 1913
- Signatures
- No bank officer signature on this issue.
- Grade
- G (IBNS)
- Estimated value
- $1indicative
- Dimensions
- 150.4 × 91.3 mm (±1.1)
The type
- Type
- 20 Kronen, Austro-Hungarian Bank, 1913
- Rarity
- common
- Themes
- First World War Dual monarchy Multilingual
Inscriptions
Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank / Osztrák-magyar Bank
The Austro-Hungarian Bank, printed in German on one side and Hungarian on the other, with the denomination repeated in the monarchy's other languages down the margin
Symbology
- Two states, two faces
- German on one side, Hungarian on the other, with the denomination repeated in the monarchy's other languages down the margin. The note is the compromise of 1867 in print.
What was happening
A note of the Austro-Hungarian Bank — a single central bank serving two states, which printed the same note in German on one side and Hungarian on the other, and listed the denomination in the monarchy's other languages down the margin.
Issued in January 1913, eighteen months before the war that destroyed the state that issued it. After 1918 the successor republics overstamped these notes to mark them as theirs, and what had been one currency became eight.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 20 Kronen, Austro-Hungarian Bank, 1913 in the collection.