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2 Korona Vörös Újság
| Uitgever | Vörös Újság Beszerzési Csoport (Red Newspaper Procurement Group) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
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| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 2 Korona szükség-pénz VÖRÖS UJSÁG BESZERZÉSI CSOPORT 1919 május 13. |
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| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Stamp, Handwritten signature |
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| Opmerkingen |
In the spring of 1919, the Hungarian Soviet Republic faced a practical crisis: the state lacked small-denomination currency in sufficient quantity for everyday transactions. Local enterprises, cooperatives, and political organs began issuing their own scrip to fill the gap. This note is one of those stopgap instruments — issued not by a bank but by the procurement arm of Vörös Újság, the Hungarian Communist Party's central newspaper, meaning a publishing organization was effectively printing its own money to pay for goods and services.
The handwritten signature and stamp are the only authentication measures, which tells you everything about the improvised nature of the issue. Forgery was a genuine concern across the entire Hungarian emergency scrip category of 1919, and the Soviet Republic's collapse in August of that year rendered the whole class worthless almost overnight.