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1 Gulden
| Issuer | Wiener Stadt Banco |
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| Year | 1800 |
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| Size | 150 × 68 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, with two oval embossed dry seals positioned side by side in the upper portion of the note, each bearing impressed text and imagery typical of the Wiener Stadt Banco authentication stamps. The remainder of the surface is unprinted, retaining the natural cream tone of the hand-laid paper stock. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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The Wiener Stadt Banco was not a central bank in any modern sense but a municipal credit institution dating to 1706, originally established to manage Viennese civic debt. By 1800 it had become the principal issuer of low-denomination paper currency for the Habsburg lands — a role it held uneasily, as public trust in its notes had already been shaken by decades of war financing and expanding issue volumes.
The embossed seal was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, applied by hand press after printing. Within a decade of this note's issue, the catastrophic Bankozettel inflation of the Napoleonic years would reduce the real value of such gulden notes to a fraction of face — the 1811 state bankruptcy formally devalued all outstanding banco paper by 80 percent.