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60 Gulden
| Issuer | k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Value | 60 Gulden |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire face. At centre top, an oval cartouche bears the denomination numeral "60" flanked by the title "Cassa-Anweisung" in blackletter script. Below, the full denomination "Sechzig Gulden Conventions-Münze" is set in large type, followed by a block of German text, the date "Wien am 1. September 1848," and two manuscript signatures under the legend "Von der k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa." |
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| Variants | P#A97a - Issued note P#A97b - "Formulare" |
| Comments |
The 60 Gulden denomination is an oddity in Austrian monetary history — round-figure notes of 10, 100, and 1000 Gulden were the administrative norm, and 60 was never a denomination the Habsburg banking establishment revisited. Its appearance in 1848 almost certainly reflects the financial chaos of that revolutionary year, when the Vienna government faced simultaneous uprisings across the empire and needed to mobilize cash reserves in whatever denominations were practical rather than tidy.
The k.k. Staats-Central-Cassa was a state treasury instrument, distinct from the Nationalbank, which retained its own parallel note-issuing function — a duality that created persistent confusion about sovereign credit obligations throughout the 1848–1849 period.