Catalog
2 Korona Világítási és Vízmű Rt., Budapest
| Issuer | Világítási és Vízmű Részvénytársaság, Budapest |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Korona |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in rose-red, olive-green, and yellow on plain paper. A central vignette set within a pink ruled underprint shows a silhouetted water tower against a large yellow circular background, flanked on either side by an olive-green roundel bearing the denomination numeral '2' in orange with 'KORONA' below. The issuer's name 'VILÁGÍTÁSI ÉS VÍZMŰ R.T.' runs across the top in bold block lettering, and 'BUDAPEST' is spelled out along the bottom margin with small orange diamond ornaments between each letter. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILÁGÍTÁSI ÉS VÍZMŰ R.T. UTALVÁNY két, azaz 2 koronáról, melynek ellenértékét főpénztárunk szolgáltatja ki 1920. év deczember hó 1.-ig BUDAPEST (Translation: Lighting and Water Utilities Inc. Payment Order about 2 korona, which will be payed in our main cash register till the 1st of December, 1920 BUDAPEST) |
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Világítási és Vízmű Részvénytársaság — the Lighting and Waterworks Joint-Stock Company — was one of dozens of Hungarian municipal utility firms that resorted to issuing small-denomination scrip during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system in 1918–1919. These Notgeld-style pieces were tolerated rather than formally authorized, filling a transactional gap that the new Hungarian state was too economically destabilized to address quickly.
The Adamo MSZK corpus catalogs a substantial number of Budapest corporate issues from this period, but utility company scrip is among the less frequently encountered subcategories — firms issued what they needed and redeemed it internally, leaving little in outside circulation.