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5 Korona Ugocsai Világítási Rt., Nagyszőllős
| Issuer | Ugocsai Világítási Részvénytársaság, Nagyszőllős |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey ground enclosed within a decorative black border of repeating arch and dot motifs, with small starburst ornaments at the corners. The word UTALVÁNY is set in bold decorative lettering at the top, below which the numeral 5 appears over a large monogram underprint, followed by the text koronáról. The remaining text, set in letterpress, states that the Ugocsai Világítási R.T. treasury will redeem the voucher for legal tender, with validity indicated as 1919 november hó 1-ig. |
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| Reverse description | Bold woodcut-style vignette in black and yellow occupying the full face, showing the factory building of the Ugocsai Világítási R.T. with illuminated windows rendered in yellow and multiple smokestacks rising against a grey sky. The denomination 5 korona appears in the upper left corner, while the issuer's name and location are inscribed in two lines along the lower margin. |
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Ugocsai Világítási Részvénytársaság — the Ugocsa Lighting Company of Nagyszőllős — was a provincial electricity utility, not a financial institution. That it issued emergency paper money in 1919 reflects the near-total collapse of the Hungarian monetary system following the First World War and the chaotic transition between imperial, republican, and Soviet administrations. Local businesses across the former Kingdom of Hungary stepped in to fill the void left by an absence of functional small-denomination currency.
Nagyszőllős (now Vynohradiv, Ukraine) fell within the disputed territory of Ugocsa County during precisely this period, changing hands politically as Hungarian Soviet Republic control waxed and waned in the region through mid-1919.