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1 Kreuzer Jólsva
| Issuer | Jólsva városa pénztára (Town Treasury of Jólsva) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian forint (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on plain white paper stock, enclosed within a thin ornamental border. The denomination numeral '1' is printed centrally in large type, surrounded by the full text of the treasury voucher in Hungarian, with the serial number field ('Szám') positioned at the upper left. The issuance date 'Jólsva 1849 Augustus 6-kán' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted plain white paper reverse, bearing no design, lettering, or security features; faint embossed impressions from the typeset obverse letterpress are visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Jólsva — today Jelšava in Slovakia — was one of dozens of small Hungarian towns that printed emergency fractional notes during the 1848–49 revolution when small-change coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation. The Habsburg authorities' grip on the mint supply had broken down, and local municipalities filled the gap themselves, with varying degrees of official sanction and even less consistency in printing quality.
Ambrus catalogues this as #141, placing it within a well-documented but thinly surviving series of Hungarian municipal issues. Small-town kreuzer notes of this period were used hard and discarded fast — surviving examples are almost always heavily worn or damaged.