Catalog
6 Kreuzers Rozsnyó
| Issuer | Rozsnyó Bánya Város (City of Rozsnyó Mining Town) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian forint (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency note printed in black on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of floral and interlaced ornamental rule. The numeral '6' appears at the top centre flanked by foliate vignettes. The body of the note carries three numbered clauses in Hungarian setting out the conditions of issue, backed by the municipal treasury and the Hungarian State Bank notes, with penalties for counterfeiting and a redemption deadline of eight days from public announcement. The date 'Rozsnyó 1849 Julius 16-kán' and the title 'főbiró' appear in the lower portion, accompanied by two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain paper stock with show-through of the obverse letterpress impression visible in mirror image. The surface bears evidence of period handling folds consistent with circulation use. |
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Rozsnyó — now Rožňava in southern Slovakia — was a royal free mining town with silver and iron extraction at the core of its economy. In 1849, during the Hungarian Revolution against Habsburg rule, dozens of Hungarian municipalities issued their own emergency fractional notes as metallic coinage disappeared from circulation. This 6 Krajcár piece is one of those local emissions: authorized by the town itself, almost certainly printed on whatever press was available locally, and valid only within a limited trading radius.
Ambrus catalogues this as #273, placing it within a well-documented but thinly surviving class of Hungarian municipal siege-era notes. Few circulated long enough to wear heavily; the revolution collapsed by August 1849, after which Habsburg authorities suppressed these issues.