Catalog
100 Gulden
| Issuer | Oesterreichische National Zettel Bank |
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| Year | 1816 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note in black letterpress on white stock. Upper left carries an oval guilloche vignette with the numeral '100'; to the right, the denomination 'Hundert Gulden' is set in large Gothic script. A lower-left rectangular cartouche reads 'Hundert Guld. Silber Münze'; date and issuer text appear in central body with two manuscript signatures at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hundert Gulden Die Oesterreichische National Zettel Bank bezahlt gegen diese Anweisung dem Uebringer Hundert Gulden Silbermünze nach dem Conv. Fusse. Wien den 1ten Jänner 1816. Für die Oester. N. Z. Bank. Hundert Guld. Silber Münze |
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The Oesterreichische National Zettel Bank was itself a crisis institution — founded in 1816 specifically to absorb the catastrophic debt left by the Wiener Stadtbanco's wartime overissue, which had triggered the Austrian state bankruptcy (Staatsbankrott) of 1811 and a second devaluation in 1816. Notes from this founding year are the earliest issues of the bank's existence.
P#A58 is scarce by survival rather than by original print run. The redemption policies of the 1820s and 1830s pulled enormous quantities of early Zettel Bank paper out of circulation permanently.