2 Korona Uránia Mozgófényképszínház, Szombathely

Hungarian cinema theaters briefly became improvised financial institutions in 1920, when the post-war collapse of the korona and a crippling small-change shortage forced local businesses to print their own emergency scrip. The Uránia Mozgófényképszínház in Szombathely — a regional city in western Hungary, close to the Austrian border — issued this 2 korona note as a szükségpénz, accepted presumably within the theater and among local merchants willing to honor it.

The Adamo catalog documents these private Hungarian emergency issues methodically, but surviving examples from individual cinemas are genuinely rare; most were redeemed quickly or simply discarded once the shortage eased.