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1 Korona Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek Rt., Budapest
| Issuer | Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek Rt. (National United Textile Works Co.), Budapest |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1919 |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-blue tinted ground with a decorative border composed of repeated ornamental corner pieces and a continuous frame enclosing the central text. A large monogram watermark-style underprint in pale red-pink occupies the centre of the note. Series and serial number are printed in black at the top, with the bold heading 'Béjegy' followed by the issuer's name and redemption text in Hungarian, the denomination 'K 1.— azaz: Egy koronát' in large bold type, and the validity date and issuer name at the foot. Small denomination tablets reading '1 KOR.' appear in each corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sorozat 008 Szám 007044 Bérjegy A NEMZETI EGYESÜLT TEXTILMŰVEK R.-T. megtéríti ezen bérjegy átadása ellenében K 1.— azaz: Egy koronát Érvényes 1919 szeptember 30-ig. Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek R.-T. KULTÚRA BPEST. |
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This is a textilpénz — a factory-issued emergency note — produced during the chaotic monetary conditions of 1919, when Hungary was cycling through the collapse of the Habsburg monetary union, the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, and the Romanian military occupation of Budapest. Industrial firms printed their own small-denomination scrip to pay wages when coin and low-value banknotes simply ceased to circulate reliably.
Kultúra nyomda was a Budapest commercial printer with no specialized security printing background, which shows in these notes — they were never intended to resist forgery, only to function within a closed factory economy where the issuer and the workforce knew each other.
The Adamo MSZK cataloguing places this within a documented but thinly researched class of Hungarian notgeld; survivorship is largely accidental.