Catalog
5 Gulden
| Issuer | Wiener Stadt-Banco |
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| Year | 1759 |
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| Reference(s) | KK Banknoten#1 |
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| Obverse lettering | ZahlungsPapier. 5. Fl. Drey Jahre nach dem Frieden zahltet der Wiener Stadt-Banco dem Ueberbringer die Summe von Fünf Gulden Ött Fiorint. Pét Zlatych. In allen öffentlichen Caſſen an Zalungs-ſtatt angenommen, vermoge Edictes vom 1. Nov. 1759. Wien den 1. Nov. 1759. Peter Joſeph von Roſler. |
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| Signature(s) | Peter Joseph von Rösler |
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The Wiener Stadt-Banco was not a bank in any modern sense — it was a municipal credit institution founded in 1706 to manage Vienna's public debt, and its paper obligations circulated as a kind of proto-currency decades before Austria had anything resembling a central bank. The 1759 5 Gulden issue predates the Banco-Zettel reform by several years and belongs to the earliest stratum of organized paper money in the Habsburg lands.
Peter Joseph von Rösler served as one of the institution's senior administrators, and his signature authenticated the note at the point of issue — a manual process meaning no two examples are strictly identical in their signing hand. These early Stadt-Banco notes were handwritten or partially handwritten on laid paper, with printed elements added progressively over successive issues.