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500 Gulden
| Issuer | K.u.K. Staats-Central-Casse |
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| Year | 1853 |
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| Value | 500 Gulden |
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| Obverse description | Elaborate intaglio engraving with a classical frieze vignette across the top and bottom borders, showing mythological figures, horses and warriors in relief style. Central text panel bears the denomination "500 Gulden" as "Reichs-Schatschein" with a double-headed eagle underprint. Circular blank medallions occupy the four corners, typical of the period's security design. |
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| Variants | P#A148a - Issued note P#A148b - "Formulare" |
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The K.u.K. Staats-Central-Casse — the Imperial-Royal State Central Treasury — issued notes directly rather than through a central bank, a deliberate arrangement that kept the Habsburg crown's emergency financing outside the formal banking apparatus. By 1853, Austria was still absorbing the fiscal wreckage of 1848–49: two revolutions suppressed, a Hungarian campaign fought, and a forced loan already unpopular with the public. High-denomination treasury notes like this 500 Gulden served institutional creditors and large merchants; ordinary Austrians rarely handled them.
The intaglio work on this series is the standout technical feature — deep-relief printing demanding skilled pressmen and precise plate registration, expensive for the state but difficult to counterfeit with the tools then available.