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2 Korona Sokszorosító Ipar Rt., Budapest
| Issuer | Sokszorosító Ipar Részvénytársaság, Budapest |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 130 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire field, with diamond-shaped ornamental vignettes at left and right margins bearing the word KETTŐ in vertical orientation. A central oval medallion contains a landscape vignette of a building or factory scene, overlaid by a large brown numeral 2 with the word KETTŐ repeated around the inner border of the medallion. The denomination KÉT KORONA appears in a brown banner at the top, with the issuer's redemption pledge in brown letterpress text below, and three manuscript signatures over printed titles IGAZGATÓ, PÉNZTÁROS, IGAZGATÓ at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 KÉT KORONA 2 A Sokszorosító Ipar R.T. bárki kívánságára e pénzjegyet, 1921. december hó 1-ig, névértékben átváltja más, törvényes pénznemekre KETTŐ KORONA |
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Sokszorosító Ipar Részvénytársaság — literally "Reproduction Industry Joint Stock Company" — was a Budapest printing firm, not a bank. Notes like this one emerged from the chaotic emergency currency conditions that followed the dissolution of Austria-Hungary and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone's purchasing power. Private industrial and commercial entities across Hungary issued low-denomination scrip in 1920–1921 to address the acute shortage of small change that state institutions could not keep pace with.
The Adamo catalog documents these Hungarian szükségpénz issues, but attribution and survival data for minor private issuers remain patchy.