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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 description | Printed in yellow-green and black, the obverse is dominated by a large vignette of a stylized eagle with spread wings at the upper centre, clutching a sword and pennant. Beneath the eagle, a map of pre-Trianon Hungary is flanked by two heraldic shields — a cross on the left and a striped escutcheon on the right — with irredentist banner scrolls inscribed 'NEM NEM SOHA!' (No No Never). The lower portion carries the issuer's name and address in bold letterpress, with the denomination '50 FILLÉR' in large numerals on a yellow-green ground, flanked by two manuscript signatures. |
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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 |
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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.