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6 Kreuzer
| Issuer | K.K. Haupt-Münzamt (Imperial and Royal Chief Mint Office) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Münzschein. 18. Sechs Kreuzer. Das k. k. Haupt-Münzamt in Wien und die k. k. Provinzial-Einnahms-Cassen zahlen nach drei Monaten und vormachung für diesen ausgegangener Kund-Kreuzer-Stück in Sil- Münzschein ein Sechs-ber, scheidmünze. Der-selbe wird auch bei allen Zahlungen an öffentli-che Cassen, statt Barem chen angenommen. Wien am 1. Juli 1849. K. K. Haupt-Münzamt. |
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| Variants | P#A91 - Issued note |
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The K.K. Haupt-Münzamt emergency notes of 1849 were issued at the height of the revolutionary upheavals that tore through the Habsburg lands that year. The imperial government, facing acute coin shortages driven by wartime hoarding and disrupted minting, authorized the Mint Office itself — rather than the National Bank — to issue low-denomination paper. The Haupt-Münzamt had no peacetime role in paper currency; its appearance here as issuer reflects how badly the normal monetary apparatus had broken down by mid-1849.
These Kreuzer notes circulated hard and wore out fast. High survival rates among well-preserved examples are not to be expected.