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20 Fillér Miskolc
| Issuer | Miskolc város közlekedési vállalata (Miskolc Municipal Transport Company) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Small-format letterpress emergency voucher printed on yellow-green paper within a double-line border frame, with a hand-stamped serial number in the upper left and the denomination '20 fillér' in the upper right. A green guilloche underprint bearing the initials 'MV KV' occupies the centre, overstruck by an official circular municipal stamp in violet ink. The main text block sets out the redemption clause in Hungarian, culminating in the bold legend 'husz fillér értékben elfogadtatik'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 fillér MV KV Ezen utalványjegy Miskolcz thj.f. város közlekedési vállalatának elárusító üzletében husz fillér értékben elfogadtatik |
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Hungarian municipal transport companies issued their own small-denomination paper tokens during the severe coin shortages that followed World War One and the economic dislocation of the early Republic. Miskolc's transport operator was among dozens of provincial cities that filled the gap locally rather than waiting for central supply — a practical response to a national problem, but one that produced highly regionalized issues with tiny print runs and no coordinated redemption infrastructure.
Most were discarded once the acute shortage passed. Survival rates for these Hungarian közlekedési filléres are low precisely because no one thought to keep them.