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20 Fillér Sokszorosító Ipar Rt., Budapest
| Issuer | Sokszorosító Ipar Részvénytársaság, Budapest |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Brown and cream reverse with a light rose underprint bearing a repeated vignette pattern. The central design consists of three interlocking concentric-ring rosettes, the middle one containing a vignette of a standing worker operating a printing press, a reference to the issuing company's trade. The denomination numeral '20' is set within the left and right rosettes, with the issuer's abbreviated name arching above and below the central vignette. A serial number is printed in black at the top, and the emergency currency designation appears in two lines at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | Sokszorosító Ipar Részv.-T. Szükség pénze házi használatra |
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Sokszorosító Ipar Részvénytársaság was a Budapest printing and reproduction firm, not a bank — and that distinction matters here. In the chaotic monetary conditions following Hungary's post-war dismemberment and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone's purchasing power, private companies, municipalities, and cooperatives across Hungary issued their own emergency fractional notes throughout the early 1920s. These so-called "szükségpénz" filled the gap left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination state coinage.
The Adamo catalogue remains the primary reference for Hungarian necessity money of this period, though attribution and survival data for individual corporate issuers like this one are often incomplete.