Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Korona Világítási és Vízmű Rt., Budapest
| Issuer | Világítási és Vízmű Rt. (Lighting and Waterworks Joint-Stock Company), Budapest |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Adamo MSZK#BUC-298.6 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | VILÁGÍTÁSI ÉS VÍZMŰ R.T. UTALVÁNY tíz, azaz 10 koronáról, melynek ellenértékét főpénztárunk szolgáltatja ki 1920. év deczember hó 1-ig. BUDAPEST |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | VILÁGÍTÁSI ÉS VÍZMŰ R.T. 10 KORONA 10 KORONA BUDAPEST |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Világítási és Vízmű Rt. was a Budapest municipal utility company, and this 10 Korona note is a product of the extraordinary private money proliferation that swept Hungary in 1920. With the postwar collapse of state monetary authority and a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination currency in circulation, hundreds of Hungarian municipalities, companies, cooperatives, and institutions began issuing their own emergency paper — szükségpénz. Utility companies issuing their own scrip is not unusual in this period, but the Budapest examples carry a certain specificity: they were redeemable within a functioning urban infrastructure company, not a rural cooperative or wartime garrison.
The Adamo MSZK catalogue documents this as BUC-298.6, placing it within a well-documented Budapest emergency money sequence.