100 Gulden

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.