Hungary Austro-Hungarian (Post-War Series) 25 Korona Banknote

After the war, the Károlyi government asked the joint bank to deliver printing plates and paper to start the banknote production in Budapest (transporting money at that time would have been risky). They received the 1 and 2 kroner banknotes produced during the war, as well as the 25 and 200 kroner banknotes printed as temporary (necessity) money, the so-called printing plates for white money (that is, it was only possible to produce money of an undemanding design and which was already limited in the territory of the decaying Monarchy, the Austrians kept the possibility of printing the earlier, so-called blue money). The printing of these banknotes was prepared by the Károlyi government, and their circulation continued during the Soviet Republic. After the fall of the Soviet state, these banknotes were classified as counterfeits in Vienna. The Vienna and Budapest editions can be distinguished based on the serial number. (1 crown: over 7,000; 2 crowns: over 7,000; 25 crowns: over 3,000; 200 crowns: over 2,000.) The right-wing resisters liked to print the following texts on these banknotes: "You are fighting for this kind of paper"; "You cheated on me, not me"; "This is what the people of Pest call money!"; "Blind, Hungarian"! And the female portrait on the left side of the white money was disguised in several cases as a figure symbolizing a Jew. (TM)