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5 Korona Fegyver és Gépgyár, Budapest
| Issuer | Fegyver és Gépgyár (Arms and Machine Factory), Budapest |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Korona |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue and centres on a large circular vignette containing an engraved portrait bust of Karl Marx, shown facing slightly left with his characteristic full beard and long hair, set within a beaded border. Radiating lines extend outward from the central medallion to a decorative outer frame of interlaced foliate motifs. The denomination numeral '5' appears in each corner within star-shaped cartouches bearing the 'FG' monogram. |
| Reverse lettering | PROLETÁROK EGYESÜLJETEK |
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Fegyver és Gépgyár — the state arms and munitions works on Soroksári út — issued this note during the chaotic monetary collapse that followed the proclamation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in March 1919. Factory-issued emergency money, or szükségpénz, proliferated across Hungary that spring and summer as the Kun government struggled to maintain any coherent monetary supply. This piece is one of several denominations issued by the plant for wage payments to its own workers.
The issuer's identity is itself historically loaded: the factory had been central to Austro-Hungarian arms production throughout the First World War, and by 1919 was operating under workers' council administration.