2 Korona Ugocsai Világítási Rt., Nagyszőllős

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.