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15 Kreuzers Treasury Note
| Issuer | Hungarian Treasury (Kincstári utalvány) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Size | 100 × 72 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain white reverse with a simple fine-line rectangular border frame enclosing a multilingual counterfeiting warning printed in five languages: Hungarian, German, Slovak, Serbian (Latin script), and Romanian (Cyrillic script). The text is set in letterpress in uniform rows, each passage warning that forgers and imitators face up to eight years of imprisonment. |
| Reverse lettering | Ezen jegyek' hamisitói 's utánzói nyolcz évre terjedhető börtönöztetéssel büntettetnek. Die Verfälscher und Nachahmmer dieser Noten werden mit Kerker bis zu acht Jahren bestraft. Tíchto znakov zfalssovníci a následníci na osem rokov rozdlžiť mohúcim žalárstvom sa trescú. Ovih céduljah izkrivitelji i spotvoritelji kazne se utamničenjem, produživim na osam godinah. Фалзіфікаторѣл Шеделор аческора кѹ арест де опт ані це ба педепсі. |
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Hungary issued these small-denomination Kincstári utalvány notes in 1849 to fund the revolutionary government's war effort against Habsburg forces — a currency born entirely of military necessity. The Hungarian Treasury had almost no established printing infrastructure, so production was handled domestically in Buda under improvised conditions, which is why the printing quality across the series varies considerably from sheet to sheet.
At 15 krajcár, this was the lowest circulating value in the revolutionary issue, used for everyday transactions when silver coinage had largely vanished from circulation. After the Russian intervention and the collapse of the revolution in August 1849, Austrian authorities declared all Kossuth-era paper void — rendering these notes worthless almost simultaneously with their peak circulation.