1000 Gulden

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.