Catalog
50 Korona Győr
| Issuer | Pesti Magyar Kereskedelmi Bank Győri Fiókja |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1919-1926) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress note with an orange guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The left panel carries a bold numeral '50' within a tall decorative frame composed of interlocking geometric and folk-art motifs, bordered by a trefoil ornamental chain. The main field bears the issuing institution's name at top centre, a Hungarian coat-of-arms vignette flanked by the series letter 'D' and a printed serial number at upper right, followed by the payable-to-bearer clause and the large bold denomination legend 'ÖTVEN KORONÁT' in the centre. The date 'GYŐR, 1919. MÁJUS 7.' appears below, with two manuscript signature lines and a redemption clause at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | A PESTI MAGYAR KERESKEDELMI BANK GYŐRI FIÓKJA FIZET EZEN PÉNZTÁRJEGYRE BEMUTATÓJÁNAK ÖTVEN KORONÁT GYŐR, 1919. MÁJUS 7. A PÉNZÜGYI NÉPBIZTOS ÁLTAL KINEVEZETT MEGBÍZOTT: A PESTI MAGYAR KERESKEDELMI BANK GYŐRI FIÓKJA HELYETT: Ezen pénztárjegy kelettől hat hónapon belül beváltandó. |
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In the chaotic months following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, regional Hungarian banks and commercial branches began issuing their own emergency paper money — szükségpénz — to address acute coin and currency shortages. This note is one of the more locally specific examples: issued not by a national authority but by the Győr branch of the Pesti Magyar Kereskedelmi Bank, one of Hungary's principal commercial banks of the period, acting on its own initiative to keep commerce moving in the city.
The Ambrus catalogue reference places it firmly in the documented szükségpénz corpus, but branch-issued commercial notes from Győr are considerably harder to locate than comparable emissions from Budapest.