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2 Korona Ugocsai Világítási Rt., Nagyszőllős
| Issuer | Ugocsai Világítási R.T. (Ugocsa Lighting Company), Nagyszőllős |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1919-1926) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher on grey paper, framed by a border of repeated ornamental devices. The heading UTALVÁNY appears in large bold Gothic lettering at the top centre, with the numeral 2 set in a prominent serif typeface immediately below; a stylised underprint monogram in the centre field reinforces the note's visual identity. The lower portion carries the full redemption text in Hungarian, stating convertibility at the Ugocsai Világítási R.T. cashier's office and validity through 1 November 1919. |
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| Obverse lettering | UTALVÁNY 2 koronáról, melyet az Ugocsai Világítási R.T. pénztára törvényes pénzre vált be. Érvényes 1919. november hó 1-ig. |
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Ugocsai Világítási R.T. was a regional utility company — not a bank, not a municipal treasury — which makes this 1919 2 Korona note an unusually industrial specimen of Hungarian emergency money. In the chaotic months following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage pushed even private companies into issuing their own paper scrip to handle day-to-day transactions with employees and local customers.
Nagyszőllős (today Vynohradiv, Ukraine) was deep in the contested territory of Ugocsa County, which changed hands between Hungarian, Romanian, and eventually Czechoslovak administration during precisely this period. Whether this scrip circulated long enough to matter is genuinely uncertain.