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10 Fillér Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek Rt., Budapest
| Issuer | Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek R.-T., Budapest |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Kulturapest |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-toned note with an ornate guilloche border incorporating small corner cartouches each bearing the denomination '10 FIL.' in bold. The central text field carries the heading 'Bérjegy.' in large type, followed by the issuer's name and a redemption clause in Hungarian, with the value stated both numerically and in words as '10 fillért azaz: Tiz fillért'. Fields for series ('Sorozat') and number ('Szám') appear at the top, while the validity date 'Érvényes 1919 szeptember 30-ig.' and the printer's imprint 'KULTURAPEST.' are printed in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows a faint blind impression of the obverse text visible through the thin paper stock, surrounded by the same ornate guilloche border as the face. The overall surface is plain white with no additional design elements. |
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This is a factory emergency note — not a state issue — produced during the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, when the Kun régime's nationalization of industry left workers without access to reliable small change. Textile firms and other requisitioned enterprises issued their own scrip to cover wages and canteen purchases when the national payment system buckled. Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek was one of the larger Budapest textile combines, formed through forced consolidation under the new order.
The printer, Kulturapest, was a Budapest commercial press active in this period of municipal scrip production, not a security printer by trade.