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10 Kreuzers Almásy bankó
| Issuer | Imperial and Royal General Command in Hungary (k.k. General-Commando in Ungarn) |
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| Year | 1849 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal format note printed in black on cream-toned paper with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint across the entire field, enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of floral and scrollwork ornaments. The denomination numeral "10" appears three times across the note — flanking a central guilloche rosette medallion encircling the figure "10" — with the German legend "Zehn Kreuzer" and multilingual value inscriptions in Hungarian, Croatian, Czech, Serbian Cyrillic, and Romanian along the upper and lower margins. The place and date of issue "Ofen 1. August 1849" are given at lower left, the Imperial Austrian double-headed eagle arms at centre, and the facsimile signature of Almásy at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Tiz ezüst kraiczár. Deset kraicari. Wird * für * 10 Zehn 10 Kreuzer 10 Silberscheidemünze bei allen Zahlungen an öffentliche Cassen in Ungarn statt Barem angenommen. Ofen 1. August 1849. B. Deset krajcarů. — Десет крајцара. — Зéче Крeіцáрі. |
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The so-called "Almásy bankó" takes its popular name from György Almásy, who signed these notes in his capacity as civilian administrator under the Habsburg military command occupying Hungary during the suppression of the 1848–49 revolution. The Imperial and Royal General Command issued this small-denomination scrip precisely because the Hungarian revolutionary government's own Kossuth notes had driven conventional coinage out of circulation — a textbook Gresham's Law outcome in a war zone.
Printed at Ofen (Buda) while Pest across the river remained contested, the notes were a stopgap for troop payments and local transactions. The series is poorly documented in western catalogs; the Adamo reference remains the primary authority.