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2 Korona Kecskemét
| Issuer | Kecskemét város (City of Kecskemét) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | Ambrus-II#1517 |
| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within an ornate typographic border of repeating foliate and oval guilloche units. The denomination numeral '2' appears in large circular cartouches at each upper corner, with the face value 'KÉT KORONA' set in bold letterpress within a dotted rectangular panel at the top centre. The central field carries the authorisation text in Hungarian, dated Kecskemét, 1919 június 5, below which a small oval vignette at the bottom centre presents a rearing horse — the civic emblem of Kecskemét — flanked by four facsimile manuscript signatures with their respective titles. |
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| Reverse 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 |
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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.