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5 Korona Székesfehérvári Légszeszgyár és Vegyiművek Rt.
| Issuer | Székesfehérvári Légszeszgyár és Vegyiművek Részvénytársaság (Székesfehérvár Gas and Chemical Plant Joint Stock Company) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre and orange note with a patterned geometric underprint forming two lateral panels flanking a central vignette. The central vignette bears the heraldic coat of arms of Székesfehérvár — a crenellated castle with a central tower surmounted by a crested helm with mantling — rendered in red, yellow, and grey. The denomination numeral '5' and the word 'KORONA' appear in large bold type within each lateral panel, with the issuer's name inscribed across the top and the city name 'SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR' along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁRI LÉGSZESZGYÁR ÉS VEGYIMŰVEK RÉSZV.-TÁRS. 5 KORONA SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR (Translation: SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR GAS AND CHEMICAL PLANT JOINT STOCK COMPANY 5 KORONA SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR) |
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The chaotic months following Hungary's defeat in World War One produced thousands of these local emergency notes — szükségpénz — as municipal authorities, factories, and cooperatives filled the vacuum left by a collapsing central currency system. This example was issued by a gas and chemical plant, which places it among the more industrially specific issuers of the type: a private joint-stock company paying its own workers with its own scrip.
Székesfehérvár was under Romanian military occupation for much of 1919, which makes the precise window of this note's issue and actual use a genuinely open question.