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10 Korona Pápa
| Issuer | Pápai Takarékpénztár, Pápa városi és vidéki Takarékpénztár, Pápai Gazdasági Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1919-1926) |
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| Obverse lettering | A sorozat ... szám. Csekk 10.— K, azaz Tiz koronáról, melyet alanti pénzintézetek bármelyike az átadótól fizetésképpen elfogad. Pápa, 1919. évi május hó 8-án. Pápai Takarékpénztár. Pápa városi és vidéki Takarékpénztár. Pápai Gazdasági Bank. Pápa város és járás pénzí fizetéseinek direktóriuma. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 10 10 |
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This 10 Korona note was issued by three separate Pápa-based institutions acting in concert — an unusual joint arrangement that reflects the chaotic monetary situation in provincial Hungary during 1919, when the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian crown system and the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic left small towns scrambling to produce their own emergency currency. Szükségpénz of this type were local stopgaps, often printed on whatever press was available and authenticated by hand-applied stamps rather than any central authority.
The handwritten serial numbers are typical of the improvised nature of provincial szükségpénz and complicate attribution when stamps are faint or partially legible.