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3 pengő Kreuzers Rozsnyó
| Issuer | Rozsnyó Bánya Város (Mining Town of Rozsnyó) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Size | 86 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency note printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative letterpress border composed of foliate scrollwork along the top and interlaced geometric bands along the sides and base. The numeral '3' appears at the upper centre flanked by acanthus-leaf corner ornaments. The body of the note carries three numbered conditions of issue in Hungarian, a small guilloche rosette vignette at the lower left, and the issuance date 'Rozsnyó 1849 Julius 16-kán' above the manuscript signature of the főjegyző (chief notary). |
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| Obverse lettering | Rozsnyó bánya város pénztári utalványa három pengő krajczárra E JEGYEK: 1., A városi pénztár által, álladalmi magyar Bank jegyekkel biztosittatnak. — 2., Hamisitói, a városi hatóság által fenyittetnek. 3., Visszaváltásuknak határideje, a város által határoztatik meg, minek közzétételétől számitva 8 nap alatt beváltandók; külömben érvénytelenek. Rozsnyó 1849 Julius 16-kán. főjegyző |
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Rozsnyó (today Rožňava in Slovakia) was an Upper Hungarian mining town with a long history of silver extraction, and its 1849 emergency notes were issued during the revolutionary war of independence against Habsburg rule — a period when the Hungarian government's own Kossuth-bankó notes were flooding the market but small change had effectively disappeared from circulation. Municipal and institutional scrip of this kind filled that vacuum across dozens of Hungarian towns simultaneously.
The pengő krajcár denomination reflects the transitional monetary language of the moment, straddling the older Austrian krajcár reckoning and the reformist Hungarian pengő system. Ambrus catalogues this as #271 among what is a genuinely large and heterogeneous group of 1848–49 provincial necessity issues, most of which survive in very small numbers.