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50 Fillér Ugocsai Világítási Rt., Nagyszőllős
| Issuer | Ugocsai Világítási R.T. (Ugocsa Lighting Company), Nagyszőllős |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on grey-green paper within a decorative border of repeated geometric and dot motifs. The denomination '50' appears in large bold numerals beneath the title 'UTALVÁNY' set in ornate blackletter type, followed by the text 'fillérről' in a smaller face. A faint watermark-style underprint vignette is visible in the centre field, with the full redemption text and validity date inscribed below in three lines of Hungarian text. |
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| Obverse lettering | UTALVÁNY 50 fillérről, melyet az Ugocsai Világítási R.T. pénztára törvényes pénzre vált be. Érvényes 1919. november hó 1 ig. |
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Nagyszőllős — today Vynohradiv in western Ukraine — was a small administrative center in Ugocsa County, a region that changed hands repeatedly in the aftermath of the First World War. This 50 Fillér note was issued by a local utility company, the Ugocsa Lighting Company, during the chaotic interregnum of 1919 when central monetary authority had effectively collapsed and municipal and commercial entities throughout the former Kingdom of Hungary resorted to issuing their own emergency scrip.
Corporate szükségpénz of this type — issued by a gas or electrical utility rather than a municipality or savings bank — are among the rarer subcategories of Hungarian emergency money. The Adamo MSZK catalogue documents it as NSZ-1.3, implying at least two other denominations or variants in the same series.