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10 Korona
| Issuer | Magyar Postatakarékpénztár (Hungarian Postal Savings Bank) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a circular vignette encloses a finely engraved portrait of a young woman in profile facing right, rendered in a classical style with decorative border and wheat-ear motifs. To the right, the denomination TIZ KORONA is set in bold letterpress type beneath the issuer's name in Hungarian, with the date BUDAPEST 1919 MÁJUS 15. and three facsimile signatures of bank officials. A warning inscription against counterfeiting runs along the lower margin, with the numeral 10 flanked by ornamental devices at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | A MAGYAR POSTATAKARÉKPÉNZTÁR BÁRKI KÍVÁNSÁGÁRA E PÉNZJEGYET TIZ KORONA ÉRTÉKBEN ÁTVÁLTJA MÁS TÖRVÉNYES PÉNZNEMEKRE BUDAPEST 1919 MÁJUS 15. MAGYAR POSTATAKARÉKPÉNZTÁR E PÉNZJEGY UTÁNZÁSA TÖRVÉNY SZERINT BÜNTETTETIK |
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The Magyar Postatakarékpénztár series of 1919 was rushed into production as Hungary convulsed through successive regime changes — the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, the short-lived Hungarian Democratic Republic, and then Béla Kun's Soviet Republic, all within months. The Postal Savings Bank, not the central bank, became an emergency issuing authority precisely because the institutional banking structure had effectively ceased to function.
These notes were printed domestically in Budapest at a moment when quality control was not a priority. Paper stock and ink consistency vary noticeably across surviving examples of the series.