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20 Pengő Kreuzers Kisszeben
| Issuer | Kisszeben (Sabinov) Municipality |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Value | 20 Pengő Krajczár (⅓) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Kis Szebeni utalvány husz pengő krajczárra melly a` nevezett város közpénztárában a folyamatban lévő pénzjegyekkel mindenkor felváltattatik. SZEBEN Junius 2. 1849. (Translation: 20 Kis Szeben payment order for 20 silver krajczár, which in the public offices of the named city, shall be exchanged to equivalent banknotes all the time. SZEBEN, 2nd of June, 1849) |
| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is blank. Note: any handwritten Latin text visible on the reverse is a later personal inscription by an individual and does not form part of the original banknote design. |
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Kisszeben was a small Royal Free Town in Upper Hungary — today's Sabinov in Slovakia — and this 20 Pengő Krajcár note is one of dozens of emergency municipal issues that flooded the region during the 1848–49 Hungarian Revolution. When the Habsburg blockades and wartime disruption collapsed the supply of small silver coinage, towns printed their own. Kisszeben's issues are among the more obscure of these local scrips, produced entirely in-house without access to a commercial printer.
Ambrus catalogued the series in detail; #165 is not a common survivor.