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50 Fileri
| Issuer | Casseria Orașului Timișoara (City Treasury of Timișoara) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Lith. Csendes, Timișoara |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 FILERI ACOPERIREA ACESTEI ASIGNATE O FORMEAZA BANII LEGALI VARSATI PENTRU ACEASTA ASIGNATA LITH. CSENDES, TIMISOARA |
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| Reverse lettering | Asignată pe care Casseria orașului Timișoara în timp de 2 luni dela data ce se va fixa o schimbă în bani legali Timișoara 1. Decembrie 1919 50 FILERI |
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Issued in 1919 during the chaotic interregnum following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, this note represents a hyperlocal solution to an acute small-change shortage. The Hungarian fillér coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, and municipal authorities across the former empire improvised emergency paper substitutes — Timișoara's city treasury among them. The denomination is spelled "Fileri," a Romanian phonetic adaptation of the Hungarian "fillér," which itself reflects the city's transitional status: claimed by Romania in November 1918 but not formally assigned by the Paris Peace Conference until 1920.
Lith. Csendes was a local Timișoara printing firm, making this genuinely a product of the city it served.