Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Fillér Miskolc
| Issuer | Miskolc Municipal Public Catering Enterprise (Miskolcz thj. város közélelmezési vállalatának) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Krone (1919-1926) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Yellow-toned rectangular note with a black-ruled border. A serial number appears at the upper left alongside the denomination '50 fillér' at upper right, with the bold monogram 'MV...KV' in large letters across the centre as an underprint. The main text block in Hungarian states acceptance by the Miskolc municipal public catering enterprise's retail outlets, with the value 'ötven fillér' set in bold letterpress below. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 50 fillér MV KV Ezen utalvány-jegy Miskolcz thj. város közélelmezési vállalatának elárusító üzleteiben ötven fillér értékben elfogadtatik |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Hungarian municipal emergency currency from the postwar inflationary chaos that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian crown system. Miskolc, as a major industrial city in northeastern Hungary, was among dozens of municipalities forced to issue their own subsidiary denominations in 1920 when small-change coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply devalued into irrelevance. The issuing body here is not the city treasury directly but the municipal public catering enterprise, reflecting how the acute shortage forced quasi-commercial civic bodies to step in alongside formal authorities.
Local printing in Miskolc keeps this squarely in the category of provincial emergency scrip rather than centrally coordinated issue.