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20 Fillér Világítási és Vízmű Rt., Budapest
| Issuer | Világítási és Vízmű Részvénytársaság (Lighting and Water Utilities Joint Stock Company), Budapest |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 1 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Pink and grey geometric underprint with a central hexagonal vignette in orange and dark brown, enclosing a cylindrical water tower or gasometer structure. Two diamond-shaped lozenges flank the central vignette, bearing the denomination inscription "HUSZ FILLÉR" split across both. The numeral "20" appears in the upper corners, with the issuer name along the top border and "BUDAPEST" in bold block lettering along the lower border, interspersed with decorative diamond ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILÁGÍTÁSI ÉS VÍZMŰ R.T. UTALVÁNY húsz, azaz 20 fillérről, melynek ellenértékét főpénztárunk szolgáltatja ki 1920. év deczember hó 1.-ig BUDAPEST (Translation: Lighting and Water Utilities Inc. Payment Order about 20 fillér, which will be payed in our main cash register till the 1st of December, 1920 BUDAPEST) |
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Világítási és Vízmű Rt. was a Budapest municipal utilities company, and this 20 filléres scrip belongs to a wave of privately and municipally issued emergency money that flooded Hungary in 1920 as the postwar collapse of the korona made small coins effectively disappear from circulation. Employers, shops, transit companies, and utilities all printed their own. The practice was technically illegal but universally tolerated — the state had no practical alternative.
The Adamo MSZK catalog places this within the Budapest notgeld subseries, a classification that covers hundreds of local issuers active in a remarkably narrow window between 1919 and 1922.