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2 Pengő Provisional issue
| Issuer | Magyar Királyi Pénzügyminisztérium (Hungarian Royal Ministry of Finance) |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Currency | Pengo (1927-1946) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse retains the original multilingual design of the 25,000 Korona note, composed entirely of elaborate guilloche latticework forming a symmetrical border pattern with four large ornamental corner blocks. A central horizontal panel carries the Hungarian denomination 'HUSZONÖTEZER KORONA' in bold letterpress, flanked above and below by the denomination rendered in Romanian, German, Czech, Serbian and Russian, reflecting the multinational character of the issue. The denomination numeral '25000' appears in each corner within the guilloche framework, and no pengő overprint is applied to this side. |
| Reverse lettering | 25000 HUSZONÖTEZER KORONA DOUĂZECI ȘI CINCI MII CORCOANE FÜNFUNDZWANZIGTAUSEND KRONEN DVADSAŤPÄTISÍC KORÚN ДВАДЕСЕТ И ПЕТ ХИЉАДА КРУНА ДВАДЦАТЬ И ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧА КОРОНЪ |
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Hungary's post-WWI hyperinflation had rendered the korona essentially worthless by 1924, prompting the League of Nations-supervised stabilization that introduced the pengő as the new monetary unit. This provisional 2 pengő was issued as a bridging instrument before the permanent series could be completed — Orell Füssli in Zurich handling the contract, with engraving credited to Traugott Willi, a staff engraver whose work appeared across several Central European stabilization-era commissions.
The provisional designation is key: these notes were intended for short-term use only, and relatively few survived official withdrawal.