Catalog
100 Gulden
| Issuer | Wiener Stadt Banco (Gemeinde Stadt Wien / Banko Zettels Haupt-Kasse) |
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| Year | 1800 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse showing strong letterpress blind emboss bleed-through of the obverse text and border design. No additional printed elements are present; the sheet displays the characteristic laid paper texture of early nineteenth-century Austrian banco notes. |
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| Variants | P#A35a - Issued note P#A35b - "Formulare" |
| Comments |
The Wiener Stadt Banco was not a bank in any modern sense — it was a municipal debt-management institution established in 1706 to consolidate Vienna's war borrowings, and its banknotes were effectively funded by city revenues rather than specie reserves. By 1800, massive over-issuance to cover Napoleonic-era military expenditures had already begun eroding public confidence in Banco notes, a crisis that would accelerate dramatically after 1806 and culminate in the 1811 state bankruptcy, when the Finanzpatent reduced all outstanding Banco obligations to one-fifth of face value.
Notes of this denomination from this period are rarely encountered outside institutional holdings.