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100 Pengő
| Issuer | A Vöröshadsereg Parancsnoksága (Red Army Command) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| In circulation to | 1946 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in the same dark purple-brown ink on an unprinted light ground, dominated by a large concentric guilloche rosette at centre enclosing the numeral '100', surrounded by an arc bearing the issuer's name 'A VÖRÖSHADSEREG PARANCSNOKSÁGA'. The denomination 'SZÁZ PENGŐ' is inscribed beneath the central rosette, while the word 'SZÁZ' appears in rectangular cartouches to the left and right, and the numeral '100' is repeated at each corner in plain type. |
| Reverse lettering | A VÖRÖSHADSEREG PARANCSNOKSÁGA SZÁZ PENGŐ SZÁZ 100 |
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These notes were issued by Soviet occupation authorities in Hungary during the final months of World War II, as Red Army forces pushed westward through the country. The issuing authority — the Red Army Command — had no formal mandate from any Hungarian institution; the notes were a military necessity, printed to allow troops and administrators to acquire goods and services in occupied territory without relying on the existing Hungarian pengő supply controlled by a government that was, in some areas, still fighting.
The series is sometimes called "occupation pengő" in collector literature. Soviet military scrip of this type was notoriously prone to inflation-driven dismissal by local populations who recognized it as backed by nothing durable.