Catalog
1 Kreuzer Eger
| Issuer | City of Eger (Erlau) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian forint (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface letterpress note with Hungarian text enclosed within a decorative typographic border frame. The denomination and place of issue are stated in the text body, with a handwritten serial number and the date of 15 August 1849 inscribed by hand. The note bears the manuscript signature of János Fülöp, Town Clerk of Eger, as the authorising official. |
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| Signature(s) | János Fülöp |
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Eger issued its own emergency paper money in 1849 during the Hungarian Revolution, when the collapse of regular monetary supply forced dozens of Hungarian towns to produce their own scrip. These municipal notes — called Stadtkassenscheine or városipénztárjegyek depending on which language you were using that week — were a direct consequence of the Kossuth government's disruption of Habsburg financial infrastructure, and most were printed under severe material constraints.
The bilingual naming of the issuer reflects Eger's mixed population: the city was known as Erlau to its German-speaking inhabitants. Ambrus #104 is among the smaller-denomination municipal issues of the period, and surviving examples tend to show heavy handling — these circulated hard in a short time.