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100 Gulden
| Issuer | k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Value | 100 Gulden |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-page interest accrual table headed "1849", listing daily redemption values in Gulden and Kreuzer for each month of the year. Text at the top states that interest accrues from the date of issue at two Viertel Kreuzer per day. The layout is typeset in letterpress with a plain unadorned border. |
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| Variants | P#A105a - Issued note P#A105b - "Formulare" |
| Comments |
The k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa was not a bank in any conventional sense — it was a direct arm of the Austrian imperial treasury, and the notes it issued in 1849 were essentially government debt instruments pressed into circulation during the fiscal emergency of the 1848 revolutionary year. The strain of suppressing uprisings across the empire simultaneously — Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Milan — had effectively bankrupted normal monetary channels.
Surviving examples of the higher denominations frequently show handling damage consistent with commercial rather than retail use; the 100 Gulden value circulated among merchants and government contractors, not the general public.