Hungary banknotes 500000 Korona 1923
Obverse: Portrait of woman wearing wreath at right.
Reverse: Value in Hungarian and 5 foreign languages
Signature: Tibor Kállay.
In circulation from 23 February 1924 to 30 June 1928.
Date of Issue: 1 July 1923.
Dimensions: 182 x 84 mm.
Printer: Orell Füssli, Zürich, Switzerland & Magyar Pénzjegynyomda Rt. Budapest (Hungarian Banknote Printing Corporation).
Author: Ferenc Helbing and Franke Rupert.
Paper money of the Hungarian korona
1923 First Issue
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Ferenc Helbing (25 December 1870 – 28 January 1958) was a Hungarian graphic artist and painter.
He made a pioneer work in the field of the Hungarian commercial graphics. He was the designer of many Hungarian banknotes. He also created posters, stamps, illustrations for books, glass paintings and murals (e.g. at the Palace Hotel (Palotaszálló) in Lillafüred) and won a number of prizes on applied arts and graphics competitions. Some of his works can be seen in the Hungarian National Gallery.
Franke Rupert (In Hungarian literature: Franke Ruppert; 30 October 1888, Vienna - 1971) was an Austrian graphic and engraver. He worked for the Austro-Hungarian Bank until the its liquidation, then for the Hungarian Banknote Printing Co., later for the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. He was the engraver of many pengő banknotes and the designer of the low denomination pengő banknote series of 1938. He also designed Schilling banknotes.