Catalog
| Issuer | Wiener Wechselstuben Gesellschaft in Prag |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | CASSA-SCHEIN. DIE FILIALE DER Wiener Wechselstuben Gesellschaft in Prag zahlt laut umstehenden Bestimmungen an den Ueberbringer die Summe von EINHUNDERT Gulden Oest.Whg. nebst den bis zum Verfallstage aufgelaufenen Zinsen. PRAG, den 100 FÜR DIE HAUPTCASSA DER FILIALE DER WIENER WECHSELSTUBEN GESELLSCHAFT IN PRAG. |
| Reverse description | No reverse image provided; description not available. |
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The Wiener Wechselstuben Gesellschaft — the Vienna Exchange Office Society — operated as a private money-changing and credit institution rather than a note-issuing bank in the conventional sense. Its Prague branch issuing paper obligations denominated in Gulden places this note in a narrow window of pre-1848 or Vormärz-era private financial activity in Bohemia, when the Habsburg state's grip on note issuance was firm but not yet absolute. Private institutions sometimes issued bearer instruments that blurred the line between promissory notes and banknotes proper.
The unlisted status in Pick suggests survival is extremely limited — possibly a single institutional holding.