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1 Korona Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest
| Issuer | Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Bipartite design printed in olive-green and black on plain paper. The left panel carries the issuer's name and address in bold letterpress within a dotted border frame, with the denomination 'EGY KORONA' and validity date '1920. DECEMBER 31-ig' inscribed below. The right panel presents an intaglio-style vignette of a seated figure — apparently a photographer or hobbyist — rendered in a fine woodcut manner, with the numeral '1' and legend 'KORONA' beneath; two manuscript signatures of the managing director (ügyvezető igazgató) and cashier (pénztárnok) appear at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | AZ AMATŐRÖK FORGALMI SZÖVETKEZETE BUDAPEST, IV. MAGYAR-U. 1. EZEN BONT FIZETÉS GYANÁNT EGY KORONA ÉRTÉKBEN 1920. DECEMBER 31-ig FOGADJA EL. ÜGY. IGAZGATÓ PÉNZTÁRNOK 1 KORONA |
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Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete — roughly, the Amateurs' Trading Cooperative — was one of dozens of Budapest civil and commercial associations that issued small-denomination scrip during the acute coin shortage that gripped Hungary in 1920. The postwar disintegration of the Habsburg monetary system and the subsequent hyperinflationary pressures on the new Hungarian korona left virtually no small change in circulation; private bodies stepped in to fill the gap. These emergency notes, collectively cataloged under Adamo's MSZK series, were technically illegal under state monetary law but tolerated out of practical necessity.
The BUC-8.4.1 designation places this within a broader Budapest municipal scrip grouping.