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10 Korona Vörös Újság
| Issuer | Vörös Ujság Beszerzési Csoport |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 59 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Small-format notgeld printed in purple letterpress over a light green guilloche underprint of repeated floral rosette patterns. The denomination '10 Korona' is placed at upper left, with a serial number boxed at upper right alongside the legend 'szükség-pénz'; the issuer name 'VÖRÖS UJSÁG BESZERZÉSI CSOPORT' runs in bold type across the centre field, below which the date '1919 május 13.' and a manuscript signature appear. A circular violet validation stamp is applied over the lower portion of the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Korona szükség-pénz VÖRÖS UJSÁG BESZERZÉSI CSOPORT 1919 május 13. |
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The Vörös Ujság Beszerzési Csoport — the procurement arm of the Hungarian Soviet Republic's official newspaper — issued this note during the brief communist regime of 1919 as a form of internal scrip. It was not legal tender in any conventional sense; it functioned as a coupon or exchange token, likely used within the distribution network of the newspaper itself.
The Hungarian Soviet Republic lasted 133 days. Most ephemera from this period was actively suppressed after the White Terror that followed Béla Kun's fall in August 1919, which accounts for the genuine scarcity of surviving examples across the entire Ambrus II series.