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10 Kreuzers Jólsva
| Issuer | Jólsva városa pénztára (Town Treasury of Jólsva) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Reference(s) | Ambrus#144 |
| Obverse description | Plain white note framed by a typographically printed ornamental border of floral and scrollwork devices at the corners and sides. The central text field carries the denomination numeral 10 in a large display typeface above the written-out value line, with the issuing authority and guarantee clause set in smaller letterpress text. The note is dated Jólsva, 1849 Augusztus 6-kán (6 August 1849) at the foot, with a manuscript serial number space at the upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Szám Jólsva városa pénztári utalványa 10 az az tiz pengő krajczárra Melly jegyeket a városi pénztár álla- dalmi bankjegyekkel biztositt. Jólsva 1849 Augusztus 6-kán. |
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Jólsva — today Jelšava in Slovakia — was a small Hungarian mining town in Gemer County. This 10 Krajcár note was issued by the town treasury during the revolutionary period of 1849, when the Hungarian War of Independence against Habsburg rule created acute shortages of small-denomination coinage. Dozens of Hungarian municipalities issued their own emergency scrip that year for exactly this reason.
Ambrus catalogues these town-issued pieces separately from the main Kossuth-era emissions. Survival rate for small provincial issues of this type is poor — most circulated hard until redemption or simply disintegrated.