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1000 Korona Cash ticket, Kolozsvár
| Issuer | Osztrák-Magyar Bank, Kolozsvár Branch |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1000 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Light green note with a central dark green guilloche vignette bearing the large numeral '1000' flanked by repeated denomination panels. The upper portion carries the issuer title 'AZ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK PÉNZTÁRJEGYE' in bold letterpress, with the value box '1.000 K' at upper right. The body of the note contains printed Hungarian text detailing payment conditions, with handwritten date '1918 NOV 29', place name 'Kolozsvár', an official branch stamp of the Osztrák-Magyar Bank, and a manuscript authorization signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain green reverse with a single large central guilloche oval vignette in dark green, enclosing the bold numeral '1000' surrounded by intricate interlaced decorative borders. The overall design is uncluttered, relying entirely on the geometric underprint pattern without additional text or inscription. |
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This note belongs to a peculiar category of wartime emergency issue: the cash ticket (pénztárjegy) authorized by the Austro-Hungarian Bank for local branch distribution when central supply chains broke down in the final year of the war. The Kolozsvár branch — today Cluj-Napoca in Romania — was managing a currency supply crisis at the same moment the empire itself was disintegrating.
By November 1918, Kolozsvár would change hands as Romanian forces advanced and the Hungarian administration collapsed. Notes issued here in the last months of Austrian-Hungarian authority occupy an awkward political seam — Habsburg in origin, but circulating into a wholly different postwar order.