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50 Fillér Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest
| Issuer | Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete, Budapest |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NEM NEM SOHA! AMATŐRÖK * FORGALMI * SZÖVETKEZETE Budapest, IV. Magyar-u. 1. ezen BONT fizetés gyanánt ÖTVEN*FILLÉR értékben 1920.dec. 31.-re fogadja el. 50 FILLÉR |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed as a ghost impression showing the obverse design in a pale grey underprint, with the text and vignette elements visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock, leaving the surface largely unprinted and serving as a plain back. |
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The Amatőrök Forgalmi Szövetkezete — roughly, the Amateurs' Trading Cooperative — was one of dozens of Budapest-based cooperative associations that resorted to issuing their own small-denomination paper scrip during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system. By 1920, Hungary was operating under a near-total absence of small change, and private entities from savings cooperatives to merchants' guilds filled the gap with locally accepted emergency notes. This 50 fillér piece is catalogued under the Adamo MSZK series, the standard reference for Hungarian cooperative and municipal scrip of the period.
The word "Amatőrök" in the issuer's name almost certainly refers to a hobbyist or collector society with a commercial trading arm — not a banking institution.