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5 Korona Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest
| Issuer | Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 5 Korona |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a vignette of pre-Trianon Hungary's outline map set against a dark green cross-hatched underprint, with a robed allegorical figure at right clutching a sword and pressing against the map — a pointed political commentary on Hungary's territorial losses. The numeral '5' appears in large white relief at upper left, while a ribbon cartouche above the map bears the legend 'KORONA' in green letterpress. A lower panel in black and green letterpress carries the full issuer text, denomination in bold display type, validity date '1920. DECEMBER. 31.-IG', and two manuscript signatures below the titles 'ÜGY. IGAZGATÓ' and 'PÉNZTÁROS'. |
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Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete — roughly, the "Amateurs' Trading Cooperative" — was one of dozens of Hungarian civil and commercial associations that issued their own scrip during the acute currency shortage that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Krone system and the turbulent political transitions of 1919–1920. These cooperative notes circulated as internal exchange instruments among members, filling a gap that the Magyar Állami Jegyintézet was too overstretched to address. The Adamo MSZK series documents a surprisingly broad ecosystem of such local issuers, most of them short-lived.