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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3192905, member: 46237&quot;]Here&#039;s a new pickup for my Hungarian type set:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hungary 1915KB 10 Fillér </b></p><p>KM-496 (1915-1918) (sort of)<b>*</b></p><p>Iron Planchet</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]824657[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>*</b>This is a particularly interesting coin in that it is typically catalogued as a 1915-1920 type, which erroneously implies that its production overlapped a total of five (!) Hungarian governments:</p><ul> <li>Franz Joseph I (1867-1916)</li> <li>Charles I/IV (1916-1918)</li> <li>The First Hungarian Republic (1918-1919)</li> <li>The Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)</li> <li>Miklós Horthy (1920-1944)</li> </ul><p><i>This is just not the case.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>In reality, production of this coin entirely happened under Charles I/IV (1916-1918). Except for the planchet composition, the KM-496 iron type is identical to the Franz Joseph 10 fillér nickel-brass type KM-494 (issued 1914-1916). Accordingly, leftover dies for the KM-494 type dated 1915 and 1916 were pressed into use to strike the KM-496 type.</p><p><br /></p><p>The actual production of the coin did not happen until late 1916 at the earliest though, with most of the issues dated 1915-1916 being struck in 1917 (none are dated 1917). Dies were prepared dated 1918 for the issues of the following year, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>After 1918, the type was not produced by the two intervening short-lived governments, neither of which were in power long enough to issue circulating coinage. When Miklós Horthy&#039;s government came to power in 1920, the type was re-issued for one-year (1920) during the transitional coinage period of 1920-1922. For the above reasons, I consider the issue of 1920 to be a distinct type from the type of 1915-1918.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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