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50 Gulden
| Issuer | K.K. Staats-Central-Casse (Imperial-Royal State Central Treasury) |
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| Year | 1851 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Reichs- Schatzſchein Fünfzig Gulden 50 Conv. Münze. Auf des k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei |
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| Variants | P#A137a - Issued note P#A137b - "Formulare" |
| Comments |
The K.K. Staats-Central-Casse was not a bank in any conventional sense — it was the Habsburg state treasury issuing paper directly, a stopgap arrangement that predated the establishment of the Austrian National Bank's monopoly on note issuance. These 1851 gulden notes emerged from the fiscal wreckage of 1848–49, when revolutionary upheaval and military expenditure had drained imperial reserves and forced Vienna into serial paper emissions it could not adequately back.
The K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, founded in 1804, was by this point one of the more technically capable intaglio operations in central Europe. The watermark security on this issue was deliberately intricate — a response to the counterfeiting that had plagued earlier treasury emissions during the revolutionary period.