Catalog
1 Korona Munkács
| Issuer | Munkács R.T. Város Pénztára (Municipal Treasury of Munkács) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1 Korona |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the same style of decorative blue guilloche border with folk-art inspired corner ornaments in red and blue. The numeral '1' is centred at the top, flanked by ornamental panels. Two lower corner panels each bear the inscription '1 korona'. The central text identifies the issuing authority and the date of issue, with the large bold legend 'PÉNZTÁRJEGY' dominating the middle of the note, and the expiry date stated below. |
| Reverse lettering | MUNKÁCS R. TAN. VÁROS ÁLTAL 1919. JÚNIUS 24-ÉN KIBOCSÁTOTT E PÉNZTÁRJEGY 1920. ÉVI DECEMBER HÓ 31-ÉN ÉRVÉNYÉT VESZTI. 1 korona 1 korona |
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Munkács — today Mukachevo in western Ukraine — issued emergency municipal scrip in 1919 during one of the most chaotic administrative transitions in Central European history. The town changed hands between Hungarian, Ukrainian People's Republic, and eventually Czechoslovak control within months, making any locally issued paper an artifact of a government that barely had time to exist. The Munkács municipal treasury was essentially improvising liquidity while the political question of who owned the region was still being settled by force.
The Adamo MSZK classification places this within the broader Hungarian municipal necessity issue series — small-denomination scrip produced when state currency supply collapsed after 1918. Survivor numbers are low; most municipal issues of this type were demonetized quickly once Czechoslovak koruna circulation stabilized in the region.