10 Fillér Pécs

Pécs was occupied by Serbian forces from November 1918 until August 1921, longer than virtually any other Hungarian city in the postwar settlement period. During this occupation, the municipal treasury continued to issue small-denomination emergency notes — szükségpénz — to address a genuine coin shortage, operating under an ambiguous dual authority that left the city's financial instruments in a legal grey zone recognized by neither Budapest nor Belgrade.

The 10 filléres denomination was among the smallest and most practically necessary, filling the gap left by disappearing copper coinage. Pécs municipal issues from this period are catalogued under the MSZK system rather than the standard Pick sequence, reflecting their hybrid status as neither state currency nor purely private scrip.