The Magyar Nemzeti Bank will issue a silver collector coin with a face value of 10,000 forints and its non-ferrous metal version of 2,000 forints to mark the 30th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Budapest Stock Exchange on 21 June 2020. By reopening the stock exchange, one of the fundamentals of a competitive, innovative […]
The Magyar Nemzeti Bank issued a silver collector coin with a face value of 10,000 forints and its non-ferrous metal version of 2,000 forints, on the 100th anniversary of János Harsányi’s birth, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics awarded scientist, on 29 May 2020. By issuing this collector coin, the MNB wishes to pay tribute […]
Count Ödön Széchenyi laid the foundations for organised fire departments in Hungary, with the recruitment of the first volunteers and creation of professional associations and finally the nation-wide collaboration of different associations across Hungary. As a result of his efforts, the Hungarian Firefighters’ Federation, the legal predecessor of today’s Hungarian Firefighter Association, was established in […]
The roots of peaceful regime change in Hungary reach back to 1956. In 1989, the unified opposition legitimised by mass demonstrations was able to negotiate free elections: the new parliament convened on 2 May 1990 and the government headed by József Antall then continued to change the political system. When the last Soviet solider left […]
The third coin in our series focusing on the images depicted on circulation coins is the saker falcon coin. The bird shown on the 50-forint coin is a protected endangered species, both in Hungary and around the world. As was the case with the first two coins in this series, we only use BU quality circulation […]
In the 2019 international Coin Constellation competition held in Russia, two coins issued by the MNB won awards on 23 January 2020. The “Gold Florin of Albert Habsburg” designed by Fanni Király took First Prize in the category “Gold Coin of the Year”. In the category “Best Circulation Coin”, the 50-forint circulation coin commemorating the […]