3 Kreuzers Jólsva

Jólsva — today Jelšava in Slovakia — was a small mining town in Gemer County that issued its own emergency paper money during the revolutionary upheaval of 1848–49. When the Hungarian War of Independence disrupted normal coin supply across the region, dozens of Hungarian municipalities produced local Kreditzettel of exactly this kind: small fractional notes denominated in Kreuzers, intended to keep petty commerce moving in the absence of silver. Most had extremely limited geographic circulation by design — they were redeemable only at the issuing town's treasury and considered worthless beyond the immediate district.

The Ambrus catalogue documents this as a rare survivor from a series that was almost entirely redeemed or destroyed after Habsburg forces reimposed order in 1849.