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100 Gulden
| Issuer | Wiener Stadt-Banco (Gemeinde Stadt Wien / Banco Zettel Haupt-Kassa) |
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| Year | 1806 |
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| Value | 100 Gulden |
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| Obverse description | Typeset design on cream paper with ornamental corner medallions bearing the denomination '100' in each quadrant and vertical 'Gulden' / 'Hundert' legends along the borders. Central text block carries the denomination in four languages within a decorative frame, surmounted by the issuer title and date. Multiple manuscript signatures appear below a central imperial eagle vignette, with a serial number in a panel at the foot. |
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| Variants | P#A42a - Issued note P#A42b - "Formulare" |
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The Wiener Stadt-Banco was not a central bank in any modern sense but a municipal credit institution founded in 1706 to manage Vienna's civic debt. By 1806, the Napoleonic wars had pushed the Habsburg state to the edge of financial collapse — the Banco-Zettel notes it issued were already inflating badly, and within five years the Finanzpatent of 1811 would devalue them to one-fifth of face value in a state bankruptcy that wiped out enormous private savings.
This 100 Gulden denomination would have represented a substantial sum in 1806, making it more a vehicle for large transactions and hoarding than everyday commerce. Notes from this period that survived the 1811 devaluation crisis were often retained as documentation of loss rather than spent.