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3 Korona Ugocsai Világítási Rt., Nagyszőllős
| Issuer | Ugocsai Világítási Rt. (Ugocsa Lighting Company), Nagyszőllős |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 15 November 1919 |
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| Obverse description | Plain amber-toned note with a decorative typeset border. The heading ÉRTÉKJEGY appears in bold Gothic lettering at the top, below which the numeral 3 is printed in large black type over a faint green guilloche underprint in the form of the letters RUT. The body text in cursive Hungarian script reads három, azaz 3 koronáról, melyet az Ugocsai Világítási R.T. pénztára törvényes pénzre vált be. Érvényes 1919.nov.15-ig., with the issuing town name NAGYSZŐLLŐS. set in bold capitals along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in deep burgundy-red on a pale ground with an ornate typographic border of repeating floral and dot motifs. The denomination numerals 3 KOR. appear in circular cartouches at each upper corner, flanking the bold multi-line inscription UGOCSAI VILÁGÍTÁSI R.T. NAGYSZŐLLŐS arranged in a arched panel across the upper half. Below, a silhouette vignette of an industrial building — likely the company's power station or gasworks — is rendered in black and ochre, occupying the lower portion of the note. |
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Nagyszőllős — today Vynohradiv in western Ukraine — was part of Ugocsa County when this note was issued in 1919, a year of acute monetary collapse across the former Hungarian kingdom. Ugocsai Világítási Rt. was a municipal utility company, and its decision to issue emergency paper almost certainly reflects the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coin and official currency from everyday transactions during that chaotic interregnum between Habsburg collapse and the eventual Romanian occupation of the region.
Utility-issued szükségpénz of this specificity — a lighting company, a small provincial town, a single surviving Adamo reference — are among the most locally grounded emergency issues of the period.