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1 Korona Munkács

Issuer Munkács R.T. Város Pénztára (Municipal Treasury of Munkács)
Year 1919
Type Local banknote
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Obverse description Rectangular emergency note with a decorative blue guilloche border composed of interlocking geometric and floral ornaments, enclosing a plain central field. The large numeral '1' appears in the upper left corner, with 'KORONA' printed vertically along the right margin. Central text states the issuing authority and redemption terms, with the bold denomination 'EGY KORONA' in the middle, and the serial number printed in black at the lower centre.
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Reverse lettering MUNKÁCS R. TAN. VÁROS ÁLTAL
1919. JÚNIUS 24-ÉN KIBOCSÁTOTT E
PÉNZTÁRJEGY
1920. ÉVI DECEMBER HÓ 31-ÉN ÉRVÉNYÉT VESZTI.
1 korona
1 korona
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Munkács — today Mukachevo in western Ukraine — issued emergency municipal scrip in 1919 during one of the most chaotic administrative transitions in Central European history. The town changed hands between Hungarian, Ukrainian People's Republic, and eventually Czechoslovak control within months, making any locally issued paper an artifact of a government that barely had time to exist. The Munkács municipal treasury was essentially improvising liquidity while the political question of who owned the region was still being settled by force.

The Adamo MSZK classification places this within the broader Hungarian municipal necessity issue series — small-denomination scrip produced when state currency supply collapsed after 1918. Survivor numbers are low; most municipal issues of this type were demonetized quickly once Czechoslovak koruna circulation stabilized in the region.

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