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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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| Value | 2 Korona |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a woodcut-style vignette occupying the full face, rendered in black and yellow, with a stylised industrial composition centred on a factory building with multiple smokestacks emitting dark plumes against a grey sky. Arc lamps on posts flank the building on either side, directly referencing the issuing electricity company. The denomination 2 korona is placed in the upper left corner, while the issuer's name and town appear in bold capitals along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 2 korona UGOCSAI VILÁGÍTÁSI R.-T. NAGYSZŐLLŐS |
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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.