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5 Pengő Forint Fund note

Issuer Iparmütár (Hungarian Industrial Association)
Year 1847
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Obverse lettering IPARMÜTÁRI ALAPÍTVÁNYJEGY
Az Iparmütár ezen szabadon forgatható öt pfotos alapítvány jegy birtokosának, az alapszabályok szerinti javadalmakat biztosítja Pest Januar 1. 1847
5 pengő forint
21831 szám
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Signature(s) Gy. Cziracovics Janos, Kossuth Lajos, Nagy Borsola, and Schulek Gyula
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The Iparmütár notes of 1847 are among the most politically charged quasi-monetary documents in Hungarian history. Kossuth Lajos — whose signature appears on this note — used the Hungarian Industrial Association as a vehicle for economic nationalism, promoting domestic industry against Austrian manufacturing at a moment when the broader independence movement was building toward the 1848 revolution. These fund notes functioned less as conventional currency and more as instruments of that campaign, issued to capitalize industrial development outside Habsburg financial structures.

Kossuth's presence in the signature panel is the reason collectors pursue this series at all.

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