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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1260793, member: 12789"]A bit off topic, forgive me but I have a banknote that undeniably is a piece of history and on the surface is objectionable, but when you put the whole story behind it's issue together it is remarkable.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/germany/germany201939dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A woman holding edelweiss, a vignette created for a 1938 dated Austrian 100 Schilling note that was not released to circulation. But like so many other things they could get their nefarious paws on, the Nazis stole her and her nation.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/germany/germany201939.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The basic elements of this note, save the swastikas and the legends were all swiped from the Austrian design. So not only did the perfidious fascists steal the note design, they went ahead and stole Austria too.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1947 with the re-introduction of the Austrian schilling currency the note design was modified with a new vignette of the young lady representing Austria, but the basic elements of the design, especially the reverse, remained:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/austria/austria1001947dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/austria/austria1001947.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1260793, member: 12789"]A bit off topic, forgive me but I have a banknote that undeniably is a piece of history and on the surface is objectionable, but when you put the whole story behind it's issue together it is remarkable. [IMG]http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/germany/germany201939dtl.jpg[/IMG] A woman holding edelweiss, a vignette created for a 1938 dated Austrian 100 Schilling note that was not released to circulation. But like so many other things they could get their nefarious paws on, the Nazis stole her and her nation. [IMG]http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/germany/germany201939.jpg[/IMG] The basic elements of this note, save the swastikas and the legends were all swiped from the Austrian design. So not only did the perfidious fascists steal the note design, they went ahead and stole Austria too. In 1947 with the re-introduction of the Austrian schilling currency the note design was modified with a new vignette of the young lady representing Austria, but the basic elements of the design, especially the reverse, remained: [IMG]http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/austria/austria1001947dtl.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/austria/austria1001947.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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