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100 Gulden
| Issuer | k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1816-1892) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted note with an ornate typographic border. The title "Cassa-Anweisung" appears in large Gothic script at centre, below which "Hundert Gulden Conventions-Münze" is set in bold letterpress. A guilloche underprint bearing the numeral "100" occupies the lower centre, flanked by the date "Wien am 1. Jänner 1849" and two manuscript signatures at lower right. |
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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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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.