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500 Gulden
| Issuer | k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1816-1892) |
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| Obverse description | Text-based design on plain paper with ornate guilloche border. Central denomination numeral '500' in an oval cartouche flanked by two small vignettes. Title 'Cassa-Anweisung' in Gothic script at top, with series and serial number above; issuer and two manuscript signatures at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Cassa-Anweisung. Fünfhundert Gulden Conventions-Münze. Nº Serie A. Wien am 1. Juli 1849. Von der k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa |
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The k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa was the Austrian imperial treasury's instrument for direct note issuance, operating in parallel with — and often in tension with — the Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank. The 1849 date is significant: Austria was still absorbing the financial shock of the 1848 revolutions, and emergency state finance drove a sharp expansion of paper money that the National Bank had neither the capacity nor the mandate to cover alone.
At 500 Gulden this was a high-denomination instrument, circulating almost exclusively in commercial and government transactions. Survival rate is low; large-denomination notes of this period were routinely withdrawn and destroyed once conditions stabilized in the early 1850s.