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Austrian gulden: research record

Evidence coverage: 1535–1892. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Austrian gulden

FTM000321 · Research draft

Austria used a 60-kreuzer accounting gulden before the southern German monetary arrangements of 1535. Later convention coinage represented this older account rather than creating the gulden anew.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1535–1892; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Rhenish gold-gulden reckoningdocumented monetary transmission · qualified · 1486–1535
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Children / successors

Austro-Hungarian kronecurrency replacement · 1892
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South German guldendocumented monetary transmission · qualified · 1535
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Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

An older 60-kreuzer account · C2117

Latest research

Earlier account evidence

Convention florins denominate government-bond interest in the1 June1816 arrangements.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier account evidence

Austrian-standard florins supersede convention-standard scale at105:100;preserve as standard/scale epoch in this unit profile.

Sources and qualifications →
An older 60-kreuzer account

Austria used a 60-kreuzer accounting gulden before the southern German monetary arrangements of 1535. Later convention coinage represented this older account rather than creating the gulden anew.

Sources and qualifications →

Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1816supported

Convention florins denominate government-bond interest in the1 June1816 arrangements.

C1786
1857–1858supported

Austrian-standard florins supersede convention-standard scale at105:100;preserve as standard/scale epoch in this unit profile.

C1787
1535supported

Austria used a 60-kreuzer accounting gulden before the southern German monetary arrangements of 1535. Later convention coinage represented this older account rather than creating the gulden anew.

C2117
Evidence & research notes 6 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C844

The krone replaced the gulden at two kronen per gulden. Gulden notes continued through the transition to 1900.

Oesterreichische Nationalbank · Workshop 13 — Austrian currency reform in 1892 Citation S426 · Open source ↗

Printed p. 413: two kronen per gulden; gulden notes remained legal until 1900

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Indexed full paragraph inspected; PDF body fetch failed.

Relevant indexed passage inspected in revision 13; Printed p. 413: two kronen per gulden; gulden notes remained legal until 1900

Supported C1786

Convention florins denominate government-bond interest in the1 June1816 arrangements.

United States National Monetary Commission · Banking in Russia, Austro-Hungary, the Netherlands, and Japan (1911), The Austro-Hungarian Bank Citation S937 · Open source ↗

pp58–59

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1787

Austrian-standard florins supersede convention-standard scale at105:100;preserve as standard/scale epoch in this unit profile.

United States National Monetary Commission · Banking in Russia, Austro-Hungary, the Netherlands, and Japan (1911), The Austro-Hungarian Bank Citation S937 · Open source ↗

pp81–82

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C2117

Austria used a 60-kreuzer accounting gulden before the southern German monetary arrangements of 1535. Later convention coinage represented this older account rather than creating the gulden anew.

Gerhard Schön · Münz- und Geldgeschichte der Fürstentümer Ansbach und Bayreuth im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (2008) Citation S1114 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 70–80, especially p. 80 on Austrian reckoning and 1535; Printed pp. XV and XXI–XXII; PDF pages 23 and 29–30

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Deutsche Bundesbank · Deutsche Taler: Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Ende der Talerprägung (foreword 1967) Citation S1113 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 70–80, especially p. 80 on Austrian reckoning and 1535; Printed pp. XV and XXI–XXII; PDF pages 23 and 29–30

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C2126

The Austrian accounting gulden developed from gold-gulden reckoning and was fixed at 60 kreuzer before the 1535 southern arrangements. The precise local separation date is not established.

Gerhard Schön · Münz- und Geldgeschichte der Fürstentümer Ansbach und Bayreuth im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (2008) Citation S1114 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 70–80, especially p. 80 on Austrian reckoning and 1535

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C2127

Austrian 60-kreuzer reckoning spread into southern Germany in 1535. The connection to the later southern account is qualified for intervening regional development, not an assertion that all gulden remained equal.

Gerhard Schön · Münz- und Geldgeschichte der Fürstentümer Ansbach und Bayreuth im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (2008) Citation S1114 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 70–80, especially p. 80 on Austrian reckoning and 1535; Sections on 1535, the 60-kreuzer account, and 1753–1754 convention valuations

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Hubert Emmerig · Währung (bis 1800) (2010) Citation S1115 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 70–80, especially p. 80 on Austrian reckoning and 1535; Sections on 1535, the 60-kreuzer account, and 1753–1754 convention valuations

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C2118

The 1535 southern German arrangements established 60-kreuzer gulden reckoning that continued in Bavaria into the nineteenth century. Later regional coin valuations were not always identical.

Hubert Emmerig · Währung (bis 1800) (2010) Citation S1115 · Open source ↗

Sections on 1535, the 60-kreuzer account, and 1753–1754 convention valuations

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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