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10 Gulden
| Issuer | Wiener Stadt-Banco |
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| Year | 1759 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse lettering | ZahlungsPapier. 10. Fl. Drey Jahre nach dem Frieden zahltet der Wiener Stadt-Banco dem Ueberbringer die Summe von Zehn Gulden Tiz Fiorint. Deſet Zlatych. In allen öffentlichen Caſſen an Zahlungs=ſtatt ange= nommen. Vermoge Edictes vom 1. Nov. 1759. Wien den 1. Nov. 1759. Peter Joſeph von Roſler. |
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| Variants | P#A1a - Issued note. Unique P#A1b - "Formulare" |
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The Wiener Stadt-Banco was established in 1706 primarily to manage Vienna's municipal debt, and its paper money — when it finally came — was deeply controversial. Austrian society at mid-century remained hostile to banknotes, and the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) forced the hand of the Habsburg treasury. This 1759 issue belongs to the earliest emergency paper currency the Stadt-Banco produced, driven by the fiscal strain of that conflict rather than any confidence in paper instruments as a monetary medium.
Peter Joseph von Rosler served as a senior Banco official whose signature authenticated individual notes — hand-signed, not printed. The series is among the earliest Austrian banknotes ever issued, and examples from 1759 are exceptionally rare survivors.