MONEV AND CREDIT
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111 Austria in 1897 there were 4,942 telegraph offices, 31,484 miles oi telegraph line with 92,052 miles of wire, and the number of messages was 13,771,084.
Money and Credit.
The following table shows the issues from the Austrian mint and the value of notes now in circulation : —
—
1893
lfl94
1895
1896
1897
Florins
Florins
Florins
Florins 1
Florins
, Four-ducat 1 Single-ducat .
1 2,834,445
784,497 1,584,608
910,809 2,015,062
1,313,650 ' 2,229,397
|. 3,196,289
Gold Franz- Josefs .
_
^^
—
—
—
Twenty & ten- crown . .
135,042,480
97,323,530
72,011,700
80,116,220
79,825,805
Levantine
\ 2,607,600
\ 2,301,100
\ 6,455,600
5,440,700
tnaiers .
3,470,100 (pieces)
1 (pieces)
j (pieces)
1 (pieces)
(pieces)
Two-gulden .
Silver / Sinele-sulden .
■
Single-crown .
37,255,001
20,030,895
16,829,983
4,022,871
1,071,000
Twenty - kreu-
1 zer ^Ten-kreuzer .
—
—
—
—
—
Nickel /Twenty & ten- ^^^^^'^ \ heller . .
9,827,259
11,874,404
8,078,777
—
—
^Four-kreuzer .
Copper sOne-krcuzer .
iHalf-kreuzer .
—
—
—
—
—
"'""-ftaC'""^'!-
772,704
1,365,672
1,199,447
1,072,942
1,441,626
State notes in circulation
372,098,255
303,305,896
193,539,593
138,949,109
119,315,410
Austro-Hungarian bank-
notes in circulation .
486,623,620
507,808,160
619,854,140
659,726,360
699,907,100
The following are statistics for December 31, 1895 and 1896, of the 56 Austrian joint-stock and private banks, in thousands of florins : —
Liabilities.
—
Nominal Capital
Paid-up
Reserve
Bills, (fee, in cir- culation
227,582 212,856
Credit
Accounts
current
Mort- gages
Total, in- cluding others
1895 .
1896 .
1
233,278 241,420
217,315
71,795 81^00
534,871 511,421
666,876 734,883
1,790,432 1,642,479
Assets.
Bank
and Credit
Notes
Mortgage LoauK
670,352 736,824
Debit
Accounts
current
Cash in hand
Total,
including
others^
1895 .
1896 .
237,421 238,593
•
597,800 578,056
43,661 36,875
1,790,482 1,842,479
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