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10 Fillér Sopron

Issuer Sopron Szabad Királyi Város (Free Royal City of Sopron)
Year 1918-1919
Type Local banknote
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Obverse lettering UTALVÁNY
MELYET SOPRON SZAB KIR VÁROS
PÉNZTÁRAI 1919 JÚNIUS 30 IG
10 FILLERREL BEVÁLTANAK
SOPRON
SOPRON 1918 MÁJUS 1
POLGÁRMESTER
RÖTTIG-ROMWALTER NYOMDA R. T. SOPRON
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Reverse lettering TÍZ FILLÉR
10
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TÍZ FILLÉR
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Sopron issued its own small-denomination emergency currency in 1918–1919 as the Austro-Hungarian monetary system collapsed and coin shortages became acute across the former empire. These municipal fillér notes — szükségpénz, or necessity money — were a local solution to a hyperlocal problem, authorized by the city government rather than any central banking authority.

Röttig-Romwalter was a well-established Sopron printing house, not a security printer, which shows in the relatively modest production values of the series. The Ambrus catalogue remains the principal reference for Hungarian municipal emergency issues of this period.