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Austrian gulden
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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.
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Children / successors
Unit and issue records 1 records
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
An older 60-kreuzer account · C2117
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Earlier account evidenceAustrian-standard florins supersede convention-standard scale at105:100;preserve as standard/scale epoch in this unit profile.
Sources and qualifications → An older 60-kreuzer accountAustria 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.
1816supportedConvention florins denominate government-bond interest in the1 June1816 arrangements.
C1786 1857–1858supportedAustrian-standard florins supersede convention-standard scale at105:100;preserve as standard/scale epoch in this unit profile.
C1787 1535supportedAustria 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.