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100 Gulden
| Issuer | Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank |
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| Year | 1847 |
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| Designer(s) | Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Issued by the Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank during a period of acute political instability, this 1847 note appeared just one year before the revolutions of 1848 swept through the Habsburg territories. The Vienna uprising in March of that year triggered a bank run and severe public distrust of paper currency — notes of this series were among those refused or hoarded as citizens scrambled for silver coin.
Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger was principally a history painter and book illustrator, an unusual choice by any bank's standards. His involvement points to the Austrian National Bank's deliberate effort to position its currency as a cultural object, not merely a financial instrument.
The watermark remains the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — a thin line of defense for a denomination large enough to represent serious purchasing power in 1847 Austria.