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10 000 Korona Cash Ticket, Kolozsvár
| Issuer | Osztrák-Magyar Bank, Kolozsvári Főintézet (Austro-Hungarian Bank, Kolozsvár Branch) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 000 Korona (10 000) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out as a formal cash ticket (pénztárjegy) in the style of a promissory instrument, with the heading AZ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK PÉNZTÁRJEGYE printed in bold letterpress across the top. A central guilloche-framed vignette carries the denomination legend TIZEZER KORONA flanked by numeral panels reading 10,000 on either side. The place and date of issue, Kolozsvár and 1918 NOV 26, are handstamped in violet ink below the main text block, accompanied by the stamped and manuscript authorization of the Osztrák-Magyar Bank Kolozsvári Főintézet. |
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| Obverse lettering | AZ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK PÉNZTÁRJEGYE TIZEZER KORONA 10.000 K melyért az alulírt bankintézet a bemutatónak 19... n. összeget fizet az alábbi határozatok szerint. Kolozsvár, 19... n. OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK Kolozsvári Főintézet Ezen szelvényszegély épségben tartására kiváló gond fordítandó. A bank pénztárjegyeinek hamisítása vagy utánzása a törvény szerint büntettetik. |
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In the final weeks of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's collapse, branch offices of the Osztrák-Magyar Bank were authorized to issue their own cash tickets — Kassenscheine — to address acute banknote shortages as the central monetary system disintegrated. The Kolozsvár branch emission is among the last of these, dated 1918, when the city was still nominally under Hungarian administration but would pass to Romania under the Treaty of Trianon just two years later.
The political transition created an immediate redemption problem: Romanian authorities were under no obligation to honor Austro-Hungarian branch issues at par, and many holders of these tickets took significant losses. Surviving examples are relatively scarce — not because few were printed, but because most were surrendered or destroyed during currency exchanges conducted under considerable duress.