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| Issuer | Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek R.-T., Budapest |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Sorozat Szám Bérjegy. A NEMZETI EGYESÜLT TEXTILMŰVEK R.-T. megtérit ezen bérjegy átadása ellenében 10 fillért azaz: Tiz fillért Érvényes 1919 szeptember 30-ig. Nemzeti Egyesült Textilművek R.-T. KULTURAPEST. |
| 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.