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2 Pengő Russian Occupation
| Issuer | Command of the Red Army (Vöröshadsereg Parancsnoksága) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Reference(s) | P#M3 |
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| Obverse lettering | A Vöröshadsereg Parancsnoksága KÉT PENGŐ ELFOGADÁSA MINDEN FIZETÉSNÉL KÖTELEZŐ HAMISÍTÁSA HADITÖRVÉNYEK SZERINT BÜNTETTETIK (Translation: The Commander of the Red Army Two Pengoes Acceptance for all payments is mandatory, forgery will be punished in accordance with the law of war) |
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| Reverse lettering | A VÖRÖSHADSEREG PARANCSNOKSÁGA 2 KÉT PENGŐ 2 1944 (Translation: Two Pengoes Commander of the Red Army) |
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These notes were issued by Soviet military command following the entry of Red Army forces into Hungary in late 1944, part of a series of occupation currency denominations printed to supply troops and facilitate requisitioning from the local population. The printing origin remains debated — Soviet military currency of this type was typically produced in the USSR, though the Hungarian-language text and forint-adjacent denomination structure were deliberate choices to ease acceptance among civilians who were, understandably, skeptical of anything handed to them by an occupying army.
The print run of over twelve million places this among the more common denominations in the M-series, yet genuine circulation wear is surprisingly inconsistent — many notes were simply destroyed or discarded as Soviet forces moved westward.