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20 Korona
| Issuer | Magyar Postatakarékpénztár (Hungarian Postal Savings Bank) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | P#38 |
| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a central oval vignette of a female portrait in classical style, surrounded by allegorical figures of cherubs and harvest motifs in an elaborate Art Nouveau guilloche frame. Denomination numeral '20' appears in decorative cartouches at each corner, with flanking oval underprint rosettes. The issuer inscription and denomination legend are set in bold letterpress across the lower central panel, with the date 'Budapest 1919. Július 15.' and three manuscript signatures above their printed titles. |
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| Reverse description | Monochromatic green reverse with a bold central rectangular panel bearing the large denomination text in Hungarian, flanked by translation lines in German, Czech, and Ukrainian. Two large symmetrical oval guilloche medallions with denomination numerals '20' occupy the left and right fields, surrounded by intricate geometric lathe-work borders and foliate corner ornaments typical of the period. |
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The Magyar Postatakarékpénztár 20 Korona of 1919 was issued during one of the most turbulent stretches in Hungarian monetary history — the collapse of Austria-Hungary left the new Hungarian state printing emergency currency through whatever institutions were at hand, including the postal savings bank, which was not a note-issuing authority in any conventional sense. The result was a proliferation of low-denomination emergency issues from multiple quasi-official bodies in rapid succession.
Pick 38 falls within the period bracketed by the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, proclaimed March 1919. Whether this specific issue predates or postdates that proclamation is a detail collectors should verify against the exact date stamped on individual examples.