100 Gulden

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.