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15 Kreuzers Dárda
| Issuer | Gräflich-Herrschaftliche Rentamts-Kasse zu Darda |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian forint (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gilt Fünfzehn — Tizenöt das ist: 15. Kreuzer XV. Anno 1811. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zahlbar In der Gräflich-Herrschaftlichen Rentamts-Kasse zu Darda. |
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The Gräflich-Herrschaftliche Rentamts-Kasse zu Darda was a manorial estate treasury — not a bank, not a government body — issuing scrip against the assets of a local noble household. This kind of feudal small-change substitute flourished in the early nineteenth century across the Habsburg periphery, where chronic shortages of low-denomination coin forced landowners to paper over the gap themselves. Darda, then part of the Kingdom of Slavonia, was deep in that world.
Ambrus #87 is among the more obscure entries in the corpus of Hungarian-area notgeld. Survival rate for these estate-issue notes is poor — they were redeemed locally, with no central archive and no collector culture to preserve them at the time.