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1 Kreuzer Rozsnyó
| Issuer | Rozsnyó Bánya Város (Rozsnyó Mining Town Treasury) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Rozsnyó bánya város pénztári utalványa egy pengö krajczárra E JEGYEK: 1., A városi pénztár által, álladalmi magyar Bank jegyekkel biztosittatnak. — 2., Hamisitói, a városi hatóság által fenyittetnek. 3., Visszaváltásuknak határideje, a város által határoztatik meg, minek közzé tételétől számitva 8 nap alatt beváltandók; különben érvénytelenek. Rozsnyó 1849 Julius 16-kán. főjegyző |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream-coloured paper with a visible vertical centrefold and scattered foxing stains; the impression of the obverse letterpress text shows faintly through the sheet as a blind offset. |
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Rozsnyó (today Rožňava in southern Slovakia) issued these small emergency notes in 1849 during the Hungarian Revolution against Habsburg rule — a period when coin disappeared from circulation almost entirely as the fighting intensified and public confidence in regular monetary channels collapsed. Municipal mining towns across Upper Hungary resorted to locally printed scrip to keep commerce moving at the most basic level.
Ambrus records this as a scarce survivor of a class of notes rarely preserved with any integrity, owing to both the crude paper used and the brevity of their intended circulation.