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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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on white paper within an ornate typographic border. The denomination '100' appears at top centre above the Gothic script legends 'Hundert' in a cartouche and 'Gulden', with a central imperial eagle vignette. Four manuscript signatures of issuing officials appear in two columns, with serial number and letters at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | v. Hmr Stadt Wien Ban- ko Zettels Haupt Kasse. 100 Das ist Hundert Gulden Wiener Stadt Banko-Zettel, welcher in allen Kontributions-Kameral- und Banko-Kassen der Hungarisch-Böhmisch- und Österreichischen Erbländern in allen Stellen für baares Geld; Das ist für Ein Hundert Gulden angenommen wird. Wien den 1. Januar 1800. HUNDERT GULD. |
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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.