Catalog
2 Korona Beregszász
| Issuer | Beregszász rendezett tanácsú város pénztára (Municipal Treasury of Beregszász) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 2 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a red dotted decorative border framing three vertical panels. The central panel carries the main text in black letterpress, including the issuing authority and redemption obligation, with a faint embossed municipal coat of arms vignette above the text block. The two flanking panels each bear the denomination '2 KORONA' in bold black type, with serial numbers printed in red at the upper corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this emergency note is unprinted, consisting of plain cream-coloured paper consistent with the utilitarian character of wartime notgeld issues. |
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Beregszász was a predominantly Hungarian-speaking market town in the northeastern corner of the Kingdom of Hungary, and by early 1919 it was caught between the retreating Hungarian administration and the advancing Romanian and later Czechoslovak forces. The municipal treasury issued these korona notes locally — printed at the Balogh print shop in town — because ordinary coinage and banknotes had effectively stopped circulating. Emergency municipal issues of this kind were almost never sanctioned by a central authority; they were practical decisions made by local officials operating in an administrative vacuum.
Deputy Mayor Hunyady Gyula's signature alone on the note reflects how stripped-down the issuing apparatus had become. The Adamo catalogue treats this as a discrete series, distinguishing BER-1.2 from related types by signature or printing variation.