Catalog
2 Korona Pécs
| Issuer | Pécs Város Házi Pénztára (City Treasury of Pécs, Hungary) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The upper half of the reverse is occupied by a detailed panoramic cityscape vignette of Pécs, rendered in fine letterpress, with the twin-towered cathedral and the rooftops of the city visible against a hilly backdrop. The lower half presents a bold denomination numeral '2' at the left within an elaborate Art Nouveau foliate underprint, accompanied by the value text 'KÉT KORONA' in large Gothic blackletter, followed by several lines of smaller Hungarian text detailing the conditions of redemption, all set within decorative bordered panels with stylised floral corner ornaments. |
| Reverse lettering | KÉT KORONA EZEN PÉNZTÁRJEGYET A VÁROS PÉNZTÁRA 1920 ÉVI DECEMBER HÓ 31-ÉIG FIZETÉSÜL TELJES NÉVÉRTÉKBEN ELFOGADJA ÉS LEJÁRATAKOR A VÁROS AZONNAL BEVÁLTJA TÖRVÉNYES FIZETÉSI ESZKÖZZEL VALÓ BEVÁLTÁSÁRÓL GONDOSKODIK |
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Pécs was under Serbian military occupation from November 1918 until August 1921, an arrangement that created a peculiar monetary vacuum. Hungarian state currency remained nominally valid, but supply was erratic and the occupying administration complicated normal financial channels. Local emergency issues like this one — Notgeld in function if not always in name — filled the gap, issued directly by the city treasury rather than any banking institution.
The Adamo MSZK reference places this within the catalogued Hungarian local issues rather than the broader Yugoslav or Austrian successor-state emissions, a classification that itself reflects how contested the city's status remained throughout the early 1920s.