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2 Korona Schlick-Nicholson Gép-, Waggon és Hajógyár
| Issuer | Schlick-Nicholson Gép-, Waggon és Hajógyár |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 2 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Left panel carries a letterpress vignette of a standing factory worker in apron leaning on a hammer, set against a guilloche underprint of stars and foliate motifs in pink and blue. The right field bears the bold title UTALVÁNY above the large numeral 2 and denomination text, with the issuer name and redemption conditions in Hungarian, two manuscript signatures below, and gear-wheel ornaments at upper corners. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse showing only the bleed-through impression of the obverse design, with no intentional printed elements. |
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Schlick-Nicholson was one of the largest industrial combines in Hungary — a merger of the Schlick foundry and the Nicholson machine works, producing locomotives, wagons, and river vessels for the Austro-Hungarian market. In 1919, with the Hungarian Soviet Republic collapsing, the banking system in freefall, and metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation, large industrial employers across the country began issuing their own emergency paper — szükségpénz — primarily to pay workers when no usable official currency was available.
This 2 Korona piece is one such issue. Factory-specific emergency money of this type was typically redeemable only at company stores or on company premises, which kept it from spreading far and ensures surviving examples are almost always low-grade from heavy handling within a single facility.