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10 Kreuzers Miskolc
| Issuer | Miskolc városa hatósága (Municipal Authority of Miskolc) |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Printer | Rácz A., Miskolc |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a decorative border of repeating geometric and floral ornaments framing the entire face. The central text, set in letterpress typography, reads the denomination in words and figures, with the issuing authority and redemption clause below; a handwritten serial number and a blue circular administrative cachet appear in the upper portion. The imprint of the local printer appears at the lower left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale pink paper, largely blank, with a blue circular magistrate's seal impression in the upper left corner reading MISKOLCZ MAGISTRAT and a handwritten notation in ink near the upper right. No printed design or text is present beyond the official stamp. |
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Miskolc was one of dozens of Hungarian market towns that resorted to locally printed small-denomination emergency notes during the late 1850s and early 1860s, when the Habsburg administration's monetary policies left provincial commerce chronically short of low-value coin. These municipal chits were tolerated rather than formally sanctioned — legal ambiguity was built into their existence from the start.
Rácz A. was a local Miskolc printer, not a security printing house, and the "official stamp" is essentially what separated this from a simple commercial voucher. That stamp is the note's entire claim to authority.