Catalog
1 Kreuzer Jólsva
| Issuer | Jólsva városa pénztára (Town Treasury of Jólsva) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1849 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Krajcár (1⁄60) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Szám Jólsva városa pénztári utalványa 1 az az egy pengő krajczárra Melly jegyeket a városi pénztár álla- dalmi bankjegyekkel biztosítt. Jólsva 1849 Augustus 6-kán. |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted plain white paper reverse, bearing no design, lettering, or security features; faint embossed impressions from the typeset obverse letterpress are visible through the thin paper stock. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Jólsva — today Jelšava in Slovakia — was one of dozens of small Hungarian towns that printed emergency fractional notes during the 1848–49 revolution when small-change coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation. The Habsburg authorities' grip on the mint supply had broken down, and local municipalities filled the gap themselves, with varying degrees of official sanction and even less consistency in printing quality.
Ambrus catalogues this as #141, placing it within a well-documented but thinly surviving series of Hungarian municipal issues. Small-town kreuzer notes of this period were used hard and discarded fast — surviving examples are almost always heavily worn or damaged.