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10 Fillér Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest
| Issuer | Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1919-1926) |
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| Protection type | Ink stamp |
| Protection description | Oval ink control stamp applied to the reverse, serving as a validation mark by the issuing cooperative. |
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Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete — "Amateurs' Trading Cooperative" — was one of dozens of Hungarian civil and commercial associations that issued their own small-denomination scrip during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War and the political chaos of 1919–1920. With the Hungarian korona in freefall and metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation, private bodies stepped in to fill the gap. The ink stamp served as the primary authentication device, which made these notes cheap to produce and easy to forge.
Adamo catalogues this as MSZK#BUC-8.1.1, placing it within the Budapest municipal scrip sequence. Survival rates for this class of emergency paper are low — most were redeemed and destroyed once state coinage stabilized.