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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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| Printer | Globus Nyomda, Budapest |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-coloured ground printed with a vertical block of Hungarian text in black letterpress setting out the redemption terms, stating that notes worth at least one korona in total may be exchanged during the war, and that unredeemed notes benefit the War Assistance Office widows' and orphans' fund; dated Budapest, October 1916. Two manuscript signatures appear to the right of the text, with handwritten role designations 'altábornagy' (lieutenant-general) and 'alezredes' (lieutenant-colonel) noted alongside, accompanied by a circular blue official stamp. |
| 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body that issued these small-denomination notes to facilitate minor transactions when coinage had been almost entirely withdrawn from circulation by 1916 — silver and copper alike were being melted for the war effort.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.