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6 Fillér Hadsegélyező Hivatal
| Issuer | Hadsegélyező Hivatal (War Assistance Office), Budapest |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 6 Fillér (0.06) |
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| Obverse lettering | 6 fillér A BE NEM VÁLTOTT CÍMLETEK ÉRTÉKE A HADSEGÉLYEZŐ- HIVATAL ÖZVEGY-ÉS ÁRVA- ALAPJÁNAK MARAD Globus Budapest |
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| Reverse lettering | Legalább egy korona összértékű címleteket a háború tartama alatt, kívánatra, törvényes fizetési eszközzel névértéken beváltja a Hadsegélyező Hivatal. Budapest, 1916 október hó. altábornagy alezredes |
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The Hadsegélyező Hivatal was a Hungarian wartime welfare body that issued these small-denomination notes to facilitate minor transactions when coinage had been almost entirely withdrawn from circulation by 1916 — silver and copper alike were being melted for the war effort. The 6 Fillér denomination is particularly unusual; fractional values this low were rarely worth the cost of printing under normal conditions, which says something about how badly small change had dried up.
Globus Nyomda was a Budapest commercial printer, not a security press, and the rudimentary production quality of this series reflects that.