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10 Korona Ugocsai Világítási Rt., Nagyszőllős
| Issuer | Ugocsai Világítási Részvénytársaság, Nagyszőllős |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | UTALVÁNY 10 koronáról, melyet az Ugocsai Világitási R.T. pénztára törvényes pénzre vált be. Érvényes 1919. november hó 1-ig. |
| Reverse description | Bold woodcut-style vignette in black and yellow ochre on unprinted paper, showing the silhouette of the Ugocsai Világítási R.T. power plant building with illuminated yellow windows and two ornate electric street lamps mounted on the roofline, their globes rendered as bright white circles against a dark sky filled with billowing smoke from multiple factory chimneys. The denomination 10 korona is inscribed in the upper left corner, while the issuer name UGOCSAI VILÁGITÁSI R,-T. and the town name NAGYSZŐLLŐS appear in bold yellow lettering along the lower margin. |
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Ugocsai Világítási Részvénytársaság — the Ugocsa Lighting Company — was a provincial utilities firm in Nagyszőllős (now Vynohradiv, Ukraine), and its 1919 emergency scrip belongs to the chaotic interval when the Austro-Hungarian crown was collapsing and local institutions across the former kingdom were printing their own stopgap money to keep commerce moving. A gas or electricity utility issuing currency is unusual even by the loose standards of Hungarian szükségpénz, suggesting severe coin shortages were cutting into day-to-day billing and wage payments.
Nagyszőllős changed hands repeatedly in 1919 — Hungarian, then Romanian, then Czechoslovak administration — making the precise circulation window for this note very short.