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3 Kreuzers Jólsva
| Issuer | Jólsva városa (Town of Jólsva) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Value | 3 Krajcár (1/20) |
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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. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of white paper stock, showing faint embossed impressions of the obverse text visible through the thin paper, with no additional printed design or lettering. |
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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.