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1000 Gulden
| Issuer | Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank |
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| Year | 1847 |
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| Value | 1000 Gulden |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-engraved note with six portrait vignettes arranged around a central text panel: four allegorical female and male busts at corners and two at upper flanks, all in classical style. A central armorial vignette with supporters sits below the denomination panel reading "1000 / TAUSEND GULDEN". Date "Wien den 1. Jänner 1847" and manuscript signatures appear at lower centre. |
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| Variants | P#A78 - Issued note. Rare |
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The Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank issued this 1000 Gulden note just one year before the revolutions of 1848 tore through the Habsburg territories. When the March uprising hit Vienna and imperial finances buckled under military mobilization, high-denomination notes like this became instruments of distrust — the public preferred coin, and banknote convertibility came under severe pressure before being formally suspended in 1848.
Surviving examples are rare. The 1847 date places production before that suspension, meaning notes still circulated under nominal specie backing — a distinction that mattered enormously to merchants at the time.