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50 Korona Győr
| Issuer | Magyar Általános Hitelbank Győri Fiókja (Hungarian General Credit Bank, Győr Branch) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1919-1926) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a geometric guilloche border in grey-brown. The issuer's name appears at the top in red letterpress. A large grey underprint of the bank's name in Hungarian fills the centre field. The denomination inscription 'Pénztárjegy' and the value 'K 50 azaz Ötven koronáról' are printed in bold red type. The date 'Győr, 1919. május 6-án' appears below, flanked by two manuscript signatures; a circular embossed seal is visible at upper left. Two cancellation holes are punched through the centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for the show-through of the obverse text and guilloche border visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock. A circular embossed dry seal is applied at upper right. Two cancellation holes correspond to those on the obverse. |
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In the chaotic months following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, acute small-denomination currency shortages pushed Hungarian commercial banks into emergency note issuance — something they had no legal mandate to do in stable times. The Győr branch of Magyar Általános Hitelbank produced this 50 Korona as a local emergency note, valid only within the branch's commercial sphere. These Hitelbank branch issues are among the more obscure products of Hungary's 1919 monetary fragmentation, issued in parallel with municipal and cooperative emergency notes across the country.
The Ambrus catalogue remains the primary reference for this material; Pick does not cover Hungarian commercial branch issues at this granular level.