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20 Kreuzers Murányalja
| Issuer | Murányi Uradalom (Murány Estate) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Value | 20 Krajcár (⅓) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper note with a typeset letterpress border of ornamental floral and scrollwork vignettes framing the central text field. The denomination numeral '20' appears at the top centre within the decorative border, below which the written value 'az az húsz krajczár' is set in bold blackletter type. The body text states the note's validity as a one-year utalvány (voucher) redeemable by the Murányi Uradalom, dated 'Murányalján Augustus 18-kán 1849', with a hand-written serial number and manuscript signature in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 az az húsz krajczár pengő pénzben, mellyet ezen mai naptúl számitott egy évig érvényes utalványra a' Murányi Urada- lom a' folyamatban lévő pénzjegyekben kifizet. Murányalján Augustus 18-kán 1849. |
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The Murányi Uradalom was a large feudal estate in northern Hungary, and its 1849 emergency notes belong to a chaotic period when the Hungarian Revolution had severed normal commercial channels and small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation. Landed estates, municipalities, and individual merchants all filled the vacuum with their own paper, none of it backed by anything more substantial than local confidence in the issuer.
Ambrus #215 is among the more obscure entries in Hungarian emergency note collecting. Estate-issued Kreuzers from this uprising period survive in very small numbers — most were redeemed locally or simply wore out within months.