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| Issuer | K.K. Reichs-Central-Cassa |
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| Year | 1880 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The layout mirrors the obverse composition, with a medallion portrait vignette of Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830–1916) at center top, flanked by allegorical child figures referencing agriculture, trade, and shipping at left and mining and industry at right. All inscriptions and denomination text on this face are rendered in Hungarian, reflecting the bilingual character of the Austro-Hungarian monetary union. |
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| Variants | P#A155 - Issued note |
| Comments |
The K.K. Reichs-Central-Cassa was the Austrian imperial treasury's direct issuing arm, distinct from the Austro-Hungarian Bank that formally took over note-issuing responsibilities during the same decade. This 50 Gulden belongs to a transitional moment: the Austro-Hungarian Bank's statutory monopoly on banknote issue was consolidating through the late 1870s and early 1880s, making Reichs-Central-Cassa issues from this period administratively anomalous and short-lived as a series.
The Gulden itself was already on borrowed time — the Krone replaced it in 1892 at a fixed rate of two Kronen per Gulden.