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The schilling was established by the Schilling Act (Schillingrechnungsgesetz) of 20 December 1924, at a rate of one schilling to 10,000 kronen and issued on 1 March 1925. The schilling was abolished in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, when it was exchanged at a rate of 1.50 schilling for one Reichsmark .
1-krone note with DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH overprint. According to the provisions of the Treaty of St. Germain the newly created Republic of Austria had to overstamp the old paper money of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire still circulating in its territory, then had to replace the overstamped banknotes with new ones, and finally had to introduce an entirely new currency.
5-sol French coin and silver coins – New France Spanish-American coins- unofficial; Playing cards – 1685-1760s, sometimes officially New France; 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire – early 17th century New France
In the 19th century, the term schilling was still the equivalent of 30 pfennigs or 7½ kreuzers in the dialects of Salzburg and Upper Austria. [ 7 ] From 1925 to 1938 and 1945 to 1998 the schilling was an accounting unit as well as a currency, but from 1999 until the introduction of the euro in 2002, the schilling was only a currency unit.
The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (German pronunciation: [ˌøːstəʁaɪ̯çɪʃə natsi̯oˈnaːlˌbaŋk], lit. ' Austrian National Bank ', abbr. OeNB) is the Austrian member of the Eurosystem and was the monetary authority for Austria from 1923 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1998, issuing the Austrian schilling.
100 schillings - silver - First Austrian Republic - 1995; 100 schillings - silver - Leopold III - 1996; 100 schillings - silver - Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico - 1997; 100 schillings - silver - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria - 1998; 100 schillings - silver - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - 1999; 100 schillings - silver - The Celts - 2000
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In Austria a schilling corresponded to the number 30 [1] and in Silesia and Lusatia, the number 12. In the regional dialect it was called a Schilger in Silesia and a Schilger or Schilk in Lusatia. 240 pfennigs were minted from the 367 g Carolingian pound of silver. A schilling was determined to be twelve pfennigs, but was initially not an ...