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| Emittent | Hungarian Ministry of Finance |
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| Jahr | 1848 |
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| Währung | Austro-Hungarian Florin (1754-1857) |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain unprinted reverse typical of Hungarian 1848 emergency treasury issues, with a vertical marginal column of letterpress text along the right edge noting redemption and interest payment conditions in Hungarian. |
| Rückseitenlegende | Magyarország' kincstárnál fi-tisztviselőhivatal Budán ezen utalvány' főadójának az 1848: évi Deczem. 2. 1 90 re 100 fres álladásba |
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Issued during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, this is not a conventional banknote but a short-term interest-bearing instrument pressed into circulation as a substitute for coin. The Ministry of Finance — then barely functional as an independent institution under Kossuth's stewardship — authorized the issue in the spring of 1848 when silver had effectively vanished from circulation and the new government had no central bank of its own to fall back on.
Landerer és Heckenast, the leading commercial press in Pest and the same firm that printed Kossuth's revolutionary proclamations, produced the notes under considerable time pressure. The attached coupon entitled the holder to collect the accrued interest — an unusual feature for emergency currency, and a reminder that the government still intended to honor these as financial instruments rather than simple fiat paper.
The revolution was crushed by August 1849, and Habsburg authorities voided the issue entirely.