Catalogus
| Uitgever | Wiener Stadt Banco |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1800 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Ein Guld ~ 1 Das iſt Ein Gúlden Wiener - Stadt Banco ~ Zettel Welcher in allen Kontributions – Kameral – und Banco – Kaſſen der hungariſch – böhmiſch – und öeſterreichiſchen Erblanden in allen Abgaben für Baares Geld, das iſt für Ein Gulden angenohmen wird. Wien den i ten Januar i800. v. Gr. St. Wien Banco Zettels Haupt Kaſse I . F . ~ EIN ~ GULD ~ Gr. S. Wien Banko Zettel f. Ein Gulden. Gr. St. Wien Banko Zettel p. Ein Gulden. |
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| Beveiligingstype | Embossed seal |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Wiener Stadt Banco was not a central bank in any modern sense but a municipal credit institution dating to 1706, originally established to manage Viennese civic debt. By 1800 it had become the principal issuer of low-denomination paper currency for the Habsburg lands — a role it held uneasily, as public trust in its notes had already been shaken by decades of war financing and expanding issue volumes.
The embossed seal was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, applied by hand press after printing. Within a decade of this note's issue, the catastrophic Bankozettel inflation of the Napoleonic years would reduce the real value of such gulden notes to a fraction of face — the 1811 state bankruptcy formally devalued all outstanding banco paper by 80 percent.