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10 Gulden
| Issuer | Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank |
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| Year | 1825 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse with minimal printed content; a faint oval stamp or seal impression is visible towards the lower right corner, otherwise the surface is unadorned. |
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| Variants | P#A62a - Issued note P#A62b - "Formulare" |
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The Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank was established in 1816 specifically to stabilize Austrian finances after the catastrophic Bancozettel inflation of the Napoleonic period, during which paper money had lost roughly 80% of its value through the forced currency conversion of 1811. This 10 Gulden note belongs to the bank's early redemption-era issues, when public trust in paper currency had to be rebuilt almost from nothing — the bank was legally required to maintain a specie reserve against its note circulation, a constraint that defined the conservative issuance policy of these years.
Surviving examples from the 1825 series are genuinely uncommon. Redemption and destruction rates were high, and the paper itself is prone to toning along fold lines.