Austrian schilling

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The Austrian schilling was Austria's former national currency, used throughout much of the 20th century until the country adopted the euro.

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Austrian schilling canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fiat currency
former national currency
belongsTo Austrian economy
category Currencies of Austria
Currencies replaced by the euro
centralBank Oesterreichische Nationalbank
country Austria
denominationType banknotes
coins
euroCashIntroduction 2002-01-01
exchangeableAtCentralBank true
fixedConversionRateToEuro 1 euro = 13.7603 schilling
historicalEra 20th century
early 21st century
introduced 1924
ISO4217Code ATS
issuingAuthority Oesterreichische Nationalbank
languageOfInscription German
legalStatusAfterEuro no longer legal tender
legalTenderUntil 2002-02-28
monetaryPolicyAuthority Oesterreichische Nationalbank
monetaryReformReason post–World War I stabilization
monetaryUnion Eurozone
surface form: Eurozone (successor currency union)
namedAfter Austrian town of Schilling (historical term "Schilling")
nonDecimalSubunit no
numericISOCode 040
periodOfUse 1924–1938
1945–2002
predecessorDuringAnschluss Reichsmark
region Europe
replacedBy EUR
euro
replacedCurrency Austro-Hungarian krone
surface form: Austrian krone

Reichsmark
surface form: German Reichsmark
scope legal tender only in Austria
secondIntroduction 1945 after World War II
status obsolete
subunit groschen
subunitRatio 1 schilling = 100 groschen
successorCurrency euro banknotes and coins
suspendedDuring Anschluss period 1938–1945
symbol S
type national currency
usedBy Austrian businesses
Austrian residents
usedFor domestic payments in Austria
usedIn First Austrian Republic
Second Republic of Austria
surface form: Second Austrian Republic

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Euro replacedCurrency Austrian schilling
Austrians previousCurrencyCountry Austrian schilling
euro (indirectly, via later French franc) replacedCurrency Austrian schilling
subject surface form: euro
First Austrian Republic currency Austrian schilling
Second Republic of Austria previousCurrency Austrian schilling
euro replacedCurrency Austrian schilling