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2 Fillér Hadsegélyező Hivatal
| Issuer | Hadsegélyező Hivatal (War Relief Office), Budapest |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Size | 38 × 22 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green vegetal border composed of stylised oak or acanthus leaves frames the central vignette of a rendered coin bearing the numeral '2' above the word 'fillér' within a laurel wreath, printed in warm golden-brown tones. Below the coin vignette, a rectangular cartouche in letterpress carries the redemption clause in Hungarian. The printer's imprint 'GLOBUS BUDAPEST' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white ground printed in black letterpress with a lengthy Hungarian text running vertically, stating that unredeemed notes of at least one krone total value held during the war will be accepted at face value as legal means of payment by the Hadsegélyező Hivatal, dated Budapest, October 1916. A circular official stamp is applied at centre-left, and two manuscript signatures appear at lower right, one accompanied by the manuscript rank notation 'alezredes' (lieutenant colonel) and another noted as 'altábornagy' (lieutenant general). |
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The Hadsegélyező Hivatal — the Austro-Hungarian War Relief Office — issued these fractional emergency notes to address the acute small-change shortage that gripped Hungary from 1915 onward. Metal coinage had effectively disappeared from everyday transactions, hoarded or melted, and the government needed something to fill the gap at the lowest denominations. Fillér-value scrip like this was the result: a stopgap issued by a welfare bureaucracy rather than a central bank, which itself tells you something about how improvised the wartime monetary response had become.