Matthew Patay's
Note of the Month
October 2001
This month's featured note
is from Austria.
The denomination is 500 Schilling and the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money
(SCWPM) Number is P-154.
(obverse)
The banknote is brown on multicolored underprint. Rosa Mayreder
(1858-1938), a famous Austrian writer, painter and feminist is at left.
The note is dated 1997.
(reverse)
Rosa and Karl Mayreder are shown at the upper center of the note. A group
of suffragettes, marching for women's rights, are shown at right.