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25 Gulden
| Issuer | Wiener Stadt Banco (Stadt Wien Banco-Zettel Haupt-Kasse) |
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| Year | 1784 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1754-1816) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Fünf Zwanzig Gulden Wiener Stadt-BANCO-Zettel Welcher in allen Zahlungs-, Kammer- und Buch-Kassen der königlich-, fürstlich- und Landesfürstlichen Behörden in allen Ländern für baares Geld angenommen wird. Wien den 1ten November 1784 von der Stadt Wien Banco Zettels Haupt-Kasse WIENER BANCO ZETTEL |
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| Variants | P#A17a - Issued note P#A17b - "Formulare" |
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The Wiener Stadt Banco was Austria's oldest public credit institution, established in 1706 primarily to manage municipal debt. By the 1780s it was issuing Banco-Zettel — assignat-style paper instruments — under increasing pressure from Joseph II's costly reformist agenda and the fiscal demands of a state permanently short of silver. These notes circulated alongside the better-known Wiener Stadt Banco issues of the Theresian period, but the 1784 series reflects a distinct administrative reorganization under the Josephinian bureaucracy.
Forced currency status for Banco-Zettel was declared in 1762 and never fully lifted, meaning holders had no practical recourse against depreciation.