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1000 Gulden
| Issuer | k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1816-1892) |
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| Obverse lettering | No. [serial] Serie A. Cassa-Anweisung. 1000 Tausend Gulden Conventions-Münze. Wien am 1. Jänner 1849 |
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| Variants | P#A107a - Issued note P#A107b - "Formulare" |
| Comments |
The k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa — the Imperial-Royal State Central Treasury — issued paper money directly as a state obligation rather than through a commercial bank, a distinction that mattered enormously to the Austrian public. This 1849 issue came during a period of acute fiscal emergency: the revolutionary upheavals of 1848 had strained Habsburg finances to breaking point, forcing the state to float paper in denominations large enough that ordinary people would rarely handle them. A 1000 Gulden note in 1849 represented roughly two years' wages for a skilled craftsman.
High-denomination state paper from this period is rarely encountered in any condition — most saw heavy institutional use and were destroyed in redemption.