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20 Korona Mosonvármegye
| Issuer | Mosonvármegye Direktoriuma (Direktorium des Komitates Wieselburg) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1919 |
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| Obverse description | Typographically composed emergency note printed in dark red and black on cream paper with an overall green guilloche underprint. The left panel carries a large bold numeral '20' within a red diamond-lattice border, flanked by the denomination words 'KORONA' above and 'KRONEN' below. The right panel bears a serial number at top, the bilingual denomination lines 'HUSZ KORONA / Zwanzig Kronen' in large type, followed by parallel Hungarian and German redemption texts dated Magyaróvár, 1919 május 7, and the issuing authority 'Mosonvármegye direktoriuma / Direktorium d. Kom. Wieselburg' in red script; the printer's imprint 'Finkelstein Oszkár Magyaróvár' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed from the same typographic forme, appearing as a mirror image of the obverse text visible through the thin paper. A circular red official validation stamp reading 'MOSONMEGYEI DIREKTORIUM 1919' is applied at centre-left, and two handwritten manuscript signatures in red ink are present across the lower portion of the note, with an additional ink mark in violet at upper right. |
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Mosonvármegye — the western Hungarian county known in German as Wieselburg — issued these emergency korona notes in 1919 during the chaotic interregnum between the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the consolidation of the Hungarian state. The Direktorium, a short-lived administrative council, authorized local printing through Finkelstein Oszkár's press in Magyaróvár rather than wait for currency from Budapest, which was itself in political freefall under the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
The sole security measure was an official administrative stamp — a thin barrier against forgery, though the brevity of this note's useful life likely made counterfeiting more trouble than it was worth.