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The Austrian crown, introduced for Austria in 1919 upon the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In mediaeval Austria, there were short and long schilling coins, valued at 12 and 30 pfennigs respectively. Until 1857, the schilling was a currency unit for 30 pfennigs or 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 kreuzers.
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The Krone ( pl. Kronen) was the currency of Austria (then known as German-Austria ) and Liechtenstein after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) until the introduction of the Austrian schilling (1925), and, in Liechtenstein, the Swiss franc .
The krone (alternatively crown; German: Krone, Hungarian: korona, Italian: corona, Polish: korona, Slovene: krona, Serbo-Croatian: kruna, Czech: koruna, Slovak: koruna, Romanian: coroană, Ukrainian: корона) was the official currency of Austria-Hungary from 1892 (when it replaced the gulden as part of the adoption of the gold standard) until the dissolution of the empire in 1918.
All de facto present currencies in Europe, and an incomplete list of the preceding currency, are listed here. In Europe, the most commonly used currency is the euro (used by 26 countries); any country entering the European Union (EU) is expected to join the eurozone [ 1 ] when they meet the five convergence criteria. [ 2 ]
The Austrian schilling was the currency of Austria between 1 March 1924 [21] and 1938 and again between 1945 and 2002. It was replaced by the euro at a fixed parity of €1 = 13.7603 schilling. The schilling was divided into 100 groschen.
The Austro-Hungarian gulden (), also known as the florin (German & Croatian), forint (Hungarian; Croatian: forinta), or zloty (Polish: złoty reński; Czech: zlatý), was the currency of the lands of the House of Habsburg between 1754 and 1892 (known as the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867 and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after 1867), when it was replaced by the Austro-Hungarian krone as ...
European Currency Unit and 22 national currencies which were replaced by the euro: . Austrian schilling; Belgian franc; Croatian kuna; Cypriot pound; Dutch guilder; Estonian kroon ...
With the annexation of the Federal State of Austria by Germany in 1938, the Reichsmark replaced the Austrian schilling. During the Second World War , Germany established fixed exchange rates between the Reichsmark and the currencies of the occupied and allied countries , often set so as to give economic benefits to German soldiers and civilian ...