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12 Fillér Hadsegélyező Hivatal
| Issuer | Hadsegélyező Hivatal (War Relief Office), Budapest |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian Krone (1892-1918) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Light blue circular official cachet of the Hadsegélyező Hivatal impressed on reverse. |
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The Hadsegélyező Hivatal — Hungary's wartime War Relief Office — issued these fractional notes in 1916 to address a practical crisis: small coin had vanished from circulation as the public hoarded metal during the war. The 12 fillér denomination is among the more awkward values in the series, a figure that reflects genuine transaction needs rather than any tidy decimal logic.
Globus was a Budapest commercial printer, not a security press. The official stamp substituted for more sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures that wartime conditions made impossible to source.