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10 Pengő - trial print
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank |
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| Year | 1929 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Ferenc Deák (1803–1876), statesman and architect of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, set within an intaglio-engraved oval vignette at right, with his name and dates inscribed below. At left, the Hungarian coat of arms is rendered in fine guilloche engraving, flanked by the denomination numeral '10' in each corner; the centre carries the issuer inscription 'MAGYAR NEMZETI BANK' and the date 'Budapest, 1929. Évi Február Hó 1-én' above three facsimile signatures with their respective titles. The serial number is printed as 'B 081 000000', indicative of a trial or specimen printing. |
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| Obverse lettering | TÍZ PENGŐ MAGYAR NEMZETI BANK Budapest, 1929. ÉVI FEBRUÁR HÓ 1-ÉN FŐTANÁCSOS ELNÖK VEZÉRIGAZGATÓ DEÁK FERENC 1803-1876 A BANKJEGYEK UTÁNZÁSÁÉRT TÖRVÉNYSZABTA BÜNTETÉS JÁR |
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The 1929 Magyar Nemzeti Bank 10 Pengő series (Pick 96) replaced the korona-era notes following Hungary's post-hyperinflation stabilization, with the pengő itself having been introduced in 1927 as part of a League of Nations-supervised reconstruction program. Trial prints from this period were produced to test ink saturation, plate registration, and paper stock before full production runs were authorized — they were never intended to reach circulation and most were retained by the printer or the bank's archive.
Trial impressions of this series occasionally surface without serial numbers or with color variants that differ from issued examples. Worth examining closely for any manuscript annotations or punch cancellations, both common methods used by Magyar Nemzeti Bank to mark proofs as void.