Visiting Austria, before the advent of the euro as currency, you will certainly have happened to hold one or more twenty-shilling banknotes in your hands. And being a small denomination banknote, it was easy to hold more than one in your hands. Depicted on the banknote was an elegant man, complete with moustache and wavy hair, a look somewhere between severe and enigmatic, with a typical nineteenth-century appearance.On the back of this banknote was an imposing, arched work set in a mountain valley. A work reminiscent of Roman aqueducts, and more recently the viaducts that surely once in our l
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