6 Kreuzers Jólsva

Jelšava was a small mining town in Gemer County, and its decision to print fractional emergency notes in 1849 was driven by the near-total disappearance of metallic coin during the Hungarian Revolution — a phenomenon that forced dozens of municipalities across the Kingdom of Hungary to issue their own scrip that year. The 6 Krajcár denomination targeted the smallest everyday transactions that state-issued paper could not reach.

Local printing of this quality was rudimentary by necessity. Ambrus documents this as #143 in what is a long and heterogeneous series of Hungarian municipal issues, most of which survive in tiny quantities precisely because they were redeemed and destroyed once order was restored after the Russian intervention of August 1849.