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5 Gulden
| Issuer | Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank |
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| Year | 1825 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed by guilloche borders at the left and right margins, each incorporating the numeral value, with ornamental corner medallions bearing the Roman numeral V and foliate devices. A central text block in German blackletter script states the redemption obligation of the Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank, flanked by oval guilloche vignettes with Greek-key patterned borders. Below the main text, manuscript signatures appear alongside the issue date, with a blind embossed stamp bearing the coat of arms of the Austrian Empire at lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank was established by imperial patent in 1816, created specifically to absorb the catastrophic debt left by the Napoleonic Wars and the failed Bancozettel currency that had depreciated to roughly one-fifth of face value. This 1825 five Gulden note came roughly a decade into that stabilization effort, when public confidence in paper money was still fragile and the bank was operating under strict redemption obligations in silver.
Johann Baptist Danzinger was one of Vienna's foremost engravers of the period. The watermark — a relatively sophisticated security measure for Austrian provincial circulation at this date — was integral to the paper rather than applied after printing.