Catalog
2 Korona Kecskemét
| Issuer | Kecskemét város (City of Kecskemét) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | E PÉNZJEGY UTÁNZÁSA A TÖRVÉNY SZERINT BÜNTETTETIK KÉT KORONA Kecskemét város e pénzutalványát a M. Á. Hitelbank kecskeméti fiókja a 4736/1919. sz. P. N. rendelet értelmében köteles a M. Tanácsköztársaság érvényes, hasonló értékű bankjegyeire bármikor beváltani. Kecskemét, 1919 június 5. Városi hivatalvezető Főszámvevő Kormányzótanácsi biztos Pénzügyi megbízott |
| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the identical red-on-cream letterpress composition as the obverse, with the same ornate guilloche border, corner denomination cartouches, central authorisation text, date, four facsimile signatures, and the oval rearing-horse civic vignette at lower centre, consistent with the single-sided printing technique common to Hungarian municipal notgeld of this period where both faces carry the same design. |
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In the chaotic months following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, Hungarian municipalities issued their own emergency currency — szükségpénz — when centrally issued notes dried up entirely. Kecskemét, a large agricultural market town on the Great Hungarian Plain, was among dozens of cities that took matters into their own hands in 1919, a year already fractured by the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Romanian military occupation that followed it.
Municipal issues like this one were locally printed, often on whatever stock was available, and their legal standing was perpetually ambiguous. Redemption was promised but not always honored.