1 Forint Magyar Kereskedelmi Bank

Features

Issuer	Hungary
Issuing bank	Magyar Kereskedelmi Bank (Hungarian Commercial Bank)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1848
Value	1 Gulden (Forint)
Currency	Austro-Hungarian Florin (1754-1857)
Composition	Paper
Size	127 × 89 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	8 October 1848
Demonetized	8 March 1849
Number	N# 367052
References	P# S111 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). , Adamo MBK1# G104 István Adamovszky, Sr.; 2009. Magyar Bankjegy Katalógus: 1759-1925 = Hungarian Banknote Catalog (1^st). Adamo, Budapest, Hungary.

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Series: Kossuth bankó

Obverse

Black print; brown underprint.

Print with coat of arms at bottom. Top left, denomination in German. Top right, denomination in Czech. Bottom left, denomination in Slavonic script. Bottom right, denomination in modified Cyrillic script.

Denomination printed in underprint.

Scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, Latin (Fraktur blackletter), Latin (cursive)

Lettering:
𝔈𝔦𝔫 𝔊𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔢𝔫. 1. Jeden zlaty.
Egy forint
Ezen bankjegy egy forintért három huszast egy
forintra számitva, minden közpénztárnál elfogadtatik, és
aʼ Magyar kereskedelmi Bank által akármikor ezüst
pénzre felváltatik.
l. sl.
Völgyi ferenc нш
kincst. főpénztárnok
Koſsuth Lajoſ
Pénzügy-Minister.
Rögler János
Bank-pénztárnok
Ꙋн Фʌорінт. Еданъ Форiнтъ.
1 fl.

Translation:
One gulden. 1. One zlaty.
One forint
This banknote, valued at one forint, is considered as three withdrawals of one forint, and is accepted at all public treasuries and can be exchanged for silver money at any time by the Hungarian Commercial Bank
Völgyi Ferenc, Chief of State Treasury
Kossuth Lajos, Finance Minister
Rögler János , Bank Cashier
One florint. One forint.

Designer: József Tyroler

Reverse

Black print.

Print written, from top to bottom, in Hungarian, German, Slovak, Croatian, and Slavonic Cyrillic script.

Scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, Latin (Fraktur blackletter)

Lettering:
Ezen jegyekʼ hamisitói ʼs utánzói nyolcz évre terjedhető
börtönöztetéssel büntettetnek.
𝔇𝔦𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔯𝔣𝔞𝔩ſ𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔑𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔥𝔪𝔢𝔯 𝔡𝔧𝔢ſ𝔢𝔯 𝔑𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔫 𝔪𝔦𝔱 𝔎𝔢𝔯𝔣𝔢𝔯
𝔟𝔦𝔰 𝔷𝔲 𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔱 𝔍𝔞𝔯𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔟𝔢ſ𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱.
Tíchto znakov zfalssovňíci a nasledňíci na osem rokov
rozdlžiť mohúcim žalárstvom sa trescú.
Ovih cěduljah izkrivitelji i spotvoritelji kazne se utam-
ničenjem, produživim na osam godinah.
Фаʌʒiɸiкаторꙋʌ ШЕдЕʌор ачEстора кꙋ арEст дE опт
анĭ сЕ ђа педeпсi.

Translation: Counterfeiters and imitators of these notes will be punished with up to eight years of imprisonment.

Designer: József Tyroler

Comments

Signatures:
-Lajos Kossuth

-Ferenc Völgyi

-János Rögler

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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ND (1848)							$ 42

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