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15 Kreuzers Dárda
| Issuer | Gräflich-Herrschaftliche Rentamts-Kasse zu Darda |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Value | 15 Krajcár (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper note printed in black letterpress within a double-ruled rectangular border ornamented with a leafy vine frame. The denomination is stated bilingually in German Fraktur script — 'Fünfzehn' and in Hungarian 'Tizenöt' — above the clarifying line 'das ist: 15. Kreuzer XV.' A small central vignette box at the foot of the text area contains a miniature ox or bull device flanked by the issue year 'Anno 1811'. |
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| Reverse description | Buff paper printed in black letterpress within a double-ruled rectangular border, the text arranged in three lines of German Fraktur declaring the note payable at the comital manorial revenue office. Below the inscription, three oval seal impressions are arranged in a row: the left and right ovals contain interlaced monogram cyphers, while the central and larger oval bears a crowned heraldic lion shield, serving as the authenticating seals of the issuing estate office. |
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The Gräflich-Herrschaftliche Rentamts-Kasse zu Darda was a manorial estate treasury — not a bank, not a government body — issuing scrip against the assets of a local noble household. This kind of feudal small-change substitute flourished in the early nineteenth century across the Habsburg periphery, where chronic shortages of low-denomination coin forced landowners to paper over the gap themselves. Darda, then part of the Kingdom of Slavonia, was deep in that world.
Ambrus #87 is among the more obscure entries in the corpus of Hungarian-area notgeld. Survival rate for these estate-issue notes is poor — they were redeemed locally, with no central archive and no collector culture to preserve them at the time.