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50 Kreuzers Rozsnyó
| Issuer | Rozsnyó város pénztára (City Treasury of Rozsnyó) |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Reference(s) | Ambrus#282 |
| Obverse description | Plain blue-grey paper note with the denomination '50 kr.' printed in large letterpress type at the top centre, flanked by small decorative typographic ornaments. Below, a three-line text block in Hungarian states the obligation of the city treasury of Rozsnyó to pay the bearer fifty kreutzers in Austrian currency, followed by the place and date 'Rozsnyó, oct. [?] 1860'. A circular official stamp is visible at the lower left, accompanied by a manuscript signature to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely plain blue-grey paper with no printed text, vignettes, or ornamental elements; the reverse serves solely as the blank backing of this hand-cut emergency issue. |
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Rozsnyó — today Rožňava in southern Slovakia — was a royal free mining town in Upper Hungary with a long tradition of local economic self-sufficiency. This 50 Krajcár note was issued by the city treasury in 1860, placing it squarely in the unsettled decade following the 1848–49 revolution, when Austrian absolutist administration had largely suppressed Hungarian municipal autonomy yet could not always guarantee adequate small-denomination coin in circulation. Local scrip of this kind filled a genuine gap.
Municipally-issued paper from this period in Hungary is genuinely scarce. Most city treasury notes were redeemed promptly or simply worn to destruction in small transactions. Rozsnyó examples rarely surface outside Central European specialist auctions.