Catalog
10 Kreuzers Rozsnyó
| Issuer | Rozsnyó Bánya Város (Rozsnyó Mining Town Treasury) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian forint (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on uncoated paper, enclosed within a decorative rectangular border of interlaced floral and foliate ornaments with corner rosettes and a continuous guilloche-style lower band. The denomination numeral '10' is set in large bold type at the top centre, flanked by the foliate border, above the issuer title and the denomination in words in a larger italic script. The body of the note carries three numbered clauses of text in Hungarian, followed by the place and date of issue at lower left and the manuscript signature of the főbíró (chief magistrate) at lower right, accompanied by an ornamental handstamp at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left blank on plain uncoated paper, showing the characteristic fold lines and age toning consistent with mid-nineteenth-century emergency local issue notes. |
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Rozsnyó (today Rožňava in Slovakia) was a significant Hungarian mining town, and like dozens of Hungarian municipalities during the revolutionary period of 1848–49, it issued its own emergency paper money when the revolutionary government's supply of small-denomination notes failed to keep pace with local demand. These municipal "szükségpénz" — necessity money — were produced under purely local authority, often printed by whatever press was available in town, and had no backing beyond the issuing municipality's word and the practical need to make change.
The Ambrus catalogue remains the primary reference for Hungarian municipal emergency issues of this period, and #275 is among the more obscure entries — Rozsnyó's output was small and survival rates are correspondingly low.