Catalog
3 Kreuzers Jólsva
| Issuer | Jólsva városa (Town of Jólsva) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Reference(s) | Ambrus#142 |
| Obverse description | Plain typeset note enclosed within a decorative floral and scrollwork border. The denomination numeral "3" is printed in a large bold typeface at the centre, flanked by the issuing authority text above and the value in words below. The date "Jólsva 1849 Augustus 6-kán" appears in italic script at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Szám Jólsva városa pénztári utalványa 3 az az három pengő krajczárra Melly jegyeket a városi pénztár álladalmi bankjegyekkel biztositt. Jólsva 1849 Augustus 6-kán. |
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Jólsva — today Jelšava in Slovakia — was a small mining town in Gemer County that issued its own emergency paper money during the revolutionary upheaval of 1848–49. When the Hungarian War of Independence disrupted normal coin supply across the region, dozens of Hungarian municipalities produced local Kreditzettel of exactly this kind: small fractional notes denominated in Kreuzers, intended to keep petty commerce moving in the absence of silver. Most had extremely limited geographic circulation by design — they were redeemable only at the issuing town's treasury and considered worthless beyond the immediate district.
The Ambrus catalogue documents this as a rare survivor from a series that was almost entirely redeemed or destroyed after Habsburg forces reimposed order in 1849.