Catalog
25 Gulden
| Issuer | Wiener Stadt Banco (Stadt Wien Banco-Zettel Haupt-Kasse) |
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| Year | 1784 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with ornate blackletter typography; the denomination "Fünf Zwanzig Gulden" appears in a decorative cartouche at centre, above the legend "Wiener Stadt-BANCO-Zettel". A text block with conditions of acceptance follows, dated Wien den 1ten November 1784, with two manuscript signatures and a small heraldic vignette; serial number in manuscript at lower left. |
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| Variants | P#A17a - Issued note P#A17b - "Formulare" |
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The Wiener Stadt Banco was Austria's oldest public credit institution, established in 1706 primarily to manage municipal debt. By the 1780s it was issuing Banco-Zettel — assignat-style paper instruments — under increasing pressure from Joseph II's costly reformist agenda and the fiscal demands of a state permanently short of silver. These notes circulated alongside the better-known Wiener Stadt Banco issues of the Theresian period, but the 1784 series reflects a distinct administrative reorganization under the Josephinian bureaucracy.
Forced currency status for Banco-Zettel was declared in 1762 and never fully lifted, meaning holders had no practical recourse against depreciation.