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10 Fillér Sopron
| Issuer | Sopron Szabad Királyi Város (Free Royal City of Sopron) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1919-1926) |
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| Obverse description | Intricate Art Nouveau-style design with a dense geometric guilloche underprint in orange and green covering the entire field. At centre, a large circular vignette bears the inscription SOPRON in stylized lettering over an ornate foliate motif on a dark ground, surrounded by radiating lines. The denomination and redemption text appear in a rectangular panel at top, with a serial number at lower left, an issued date at lower centre, and the title POLGÁRMESTER with a manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels against a rich orange and dark brown background with Art Nouveau floral underprint motifs in the flanking panels. The central panel presents a full-length vignette of an armoured medieval knight in elaborate plate armour holding a lance, set against a hatched architectural ground. Large numeral '10' appears at upper left and upper right within a hatched field, flanked by the mottoes 'Kitartás' and 'Győzelem'. The denomination 'TÍZ FILLÉR' is repeated in horizontal banners at top and bottom. |
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Sopron issued its own small-denomination emergency currency in 1918–1919 as the Austro-Hungarian monetary system collapsed and coin shortages became acute across the former empire. These municipal fillér notes — szükségpénz, or necessity money — were a local solution to a hyperlocal problem, authorized by the city government rather than any central banking authority.
Röttig-Romwalter was a well-established Sopron printing house, not a security printer, which shows in the relatively modest production values of the series. The Ambrus catalogue remains the principal reference for Hungarian municipal emergency issues of this period.