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5 Dollars New York

发行方 Independent Hungarian Government (Hungarian Fund)
年份 1852
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印刷机构 Danforth, Bald & Co.
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正面铭文 HUNGARIAN FUND. INDEPENDENT HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT FIVE DOLLARS DATED AT NEW YORK
背面描述 The reverse shows a mirror-image letterpress impression of the obverse design, printed in black, consistent with a show-through or offset transfer typical of the production method used for these emergency fund notes; the text and vignettes are fully legible in reverse, with no additional design elements added to the back.
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Louis Kossuth arrived in the United States in December 1851 to a reception that bordered on mass hysteria — Congress suspended its rules to receive him, cities threw parades, and the Hungarian Fund he organized began selling these dollar-denominated bonds almost immediately. They were not currency in any functional sense. Issued against the promise of a free Hungary that never materialized, they were instruments of diaspora fundraising, payable in a future that never arrived.

Danforth, Bald & Co. were among the most capable security printers in antebellum America, responsible for a significant share of legitimate state bank note production. Their involvement lent these notes a visual authority that was entirely intentional.