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500 Korona
| Issuer | Hungarian Royal Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 July 1926 |
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| Obverse description | Dark olive-green intaglio print on a guilloche underprint with an intricate floral and geometric border frame. To the right, an oval vignette contains a finely engraved portrait of a medieval Hungarian king in armour and plumed helmet, rendered in fine line engraving. The centre field carries the denomination title "ÖTSZÁZ KORONA" in bold letterpress above the legal tender text dated Budapest, 1 January 1920, with the Hungarian coat of arms at the top centre and the Minister of Finance signature below the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | ÖTSZÁZ KORONA EZ AZ ÁLLAMJEGY, AMELY MAGYARORSZÁG FÜGGŐ ADÓSSÁGÁNAK RÉSZE, A TÖRVÉNY HATÁROZATAIHOZ KÉPEST MINDENKI ÁLTAL, VALAMINT MINDEN KÖZPÉNZTÁRNÁL FIZETÉS- KÉP TELJES NÉVÉRTÉKBEN ELFOGADANDÓ. BUDAPEST, 1920. ÉVI JANUÁR HÓ 1.-ÉN. AZ ÁLLAMJEGYEK UTÁNZÁSA A TÖRVÉNY SZERINT BÜNTETTETIK. ORELL FÜSSLI ZURICH (Translation: Five Hundred Crowns This treasury note, which is a part of Hungary`s pending debt, is to be accepted at face value by payment by everyone and in every public fund, according to the decisions of the law. Budapest, 1 January, 1920 Counterfeiting treasury notes is punishable by law) |
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Hungary's post-WWI financial position was severe enough that the new state couldn't print its own large-denomination notes domestically. Orell Füssli in Zurich handled the job — a Swiss firm with centuries of security printing experience, and politically neutral enough to be trusted with the work of a newly truncated nation still sorting out its borders under the Treaty of Trianon.
Helbing Ferenc's design work for this series is worth noting; he was one of the more capable Hungarian graphic artists of the period working in an applied commercial idiom. The 1920 date places this note in the early inflationary spiral that would eventually force Hungary to abandon the korona entirely in 1927, replaced by the pengő at a ratio of 12,500 to one.