Catalog
1 Korona Cegléd
| Issuer | Cegléd város pénztára (Cegléd Municipal Treasury) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Pale pink note with dark red letterpress printing throughout. An Art Nouveau-style vignette at the top centre presents symmetrical foliate and berry motifs flanked by stylised leaves. The denomination EGY KORONA is set in bold capital letters at the centre, framed above and below by the redemption text in Hungarian. The issue date 'Czeglèd, 1919. május hó 31.' appears below the denomination, followed by three manuscript signatures with their respective official titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | Czegléd város pénztára bárki kívánságára e pénzjegyet EGY KORONA értékben átváltja a mindenkor érvényben levő fizetési eszközökre. Czegléd, 1919. május hó 31. Intézőbizottsági tag. intézőbizottsági elnök. a pénzügyi népbiztos meghízottja. |
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Cegléd was one of dozens of Hungarian municipalities that issued emergency small-change currency in 1919 as the post-war collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left the country starved of low-denomination coin and note circulation. The municipal treasury printed its own korona notes locally — a stopgap that required no authorization from a functioning central bank, because by that point no stable central authority existed to grant it.
The Ambrus catalogue documents these Hungarian szükségpénz issues systematically, and Cegléd's series is among the more obscure provincial entries. Local printing means quality varied considerably even within a single issue run.