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2 Korona Pécs
| Issuer | Pécs Város Házi Pénztára (City Treasury of Pécs, Hungary) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Korona |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the obverse carries a vignette of a seated female figure in traditional Hungarian folk costume, set within an ornate Art Nouveau frame of stylised foliate and geometric patterns. To the right, the denomination numeral '2' appears at upper left and right corners flanking the city name 'Pécs' in bold lettering, above the issuing authority text and the value inscription 'Két Korona' in large decorative Gothic script. The date of issue, Pécs 1920 április hó 16án, and a facsimile mayoral signature above the title 'polgármester' are printed in the lower right area, with a cautionary anti-counterfeiting legend running along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | PÉCS SZABKIRVÁROS HÁZIPÉNZTÁRA e pénztárjegyet bárki kívánságára beváltja Két Korona értékű törvényes fizetési eszközzel Pécs 1920 évi április hó 16án polgármester EZEN PÉNZTÁRJEGY UTÁNZÁSA A BÜNTETŐTÖRVÉNYKÖNYVBE ÜTKÖZIK |
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Pécs was under Serbian military occupation from November 1918 until August 1921, an arrangement that created a peculiar monetary vacuum. Hungarian state currency remained nominally valid, but supply was erratic and the occupying administration complicated normal financial channels. Local emergency issues like this one — Notgeld in function if not always in name — filled the gap, issued directly by the city treasury rather than any banking institution.
The Adamo MSZK reference places this within the catalogued Hungarian local issues rather than the broader Yugoslav or Austrian successor-state emissions, a classification that itself reflects how contested the city's status remained throughout the early 1920s.