Catalog
50 Fillér Pécs
| Issuer | Pécs Törvényhatósági Jogú Város Házi Pénztára (Municipal Treasury of Pécs) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face is set against an intricate guilloche lattice underprint of interlocking circles covering the entire field, enclosed by a scrollwork border. To the left, a vignette of a domed baroque building with a standing figure atop its facade — believed to be the Pécs mosque-church — is printed in dark blue-grey. To the right, the denomination "ÖTVEN FILLÉR" appears in red letterpress, flanked by the issuing authority text and date "PÉCS, 1918. ÉVI OKTÓBER 17.-ÉN" with a manuscript signature above the title "POLGÁRMESTER" (Mayor). |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PÉCS TÖRVÉNYHATÓSÁGI JOGU VÁROS HÁZI PÉNZTÁRA A PÉNZTÁRJEGYET BÁRKINEK " ÖTVEN FILLÉR " ÉRTÉKŰ TÖRVÉNYES FIZETÉSI ESZKÖZZEL PÉCS, 1918. ÉVI OKTÓBER 17.-ÉN. |
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Pécs was under Serbian military occupation from November 1918 through August 1921, a period during which normal currency supply from Budapest was disrupted or politically complicated. This fillér note is one of several low-denomination emergency issues produced by the municipal treasury to keep small transactions functioning — the kind of gap-filler that larger authorities rarely bothered to authorize and local printers produced quickly and without ceremony.
Local printing under occupation conditions means quality control was minimal. Paper stock and ink consistency vary noticeably across surviving examples of the Pécs 1919 series.