Description
Due to the unfavourable development of the front in World War I, the Hungarian finance ministry sent a telegram in November 1918 ordering the Royal Hungarian Mint in Körmöcbánya (present-day Kremnica, Slovakia), which was the last remaining Hungarian mint, to be immediately dismantled and have its machinery and equipment transported to Budapest. A large part of the Mint’s management and workforce were also relocated to Budapest. This order essentially required a completely new start for Hungarian minting. After several years of planning and assembly, the minting of coins started again in the Hungarian Royal State Mint established in Budapest in 1926, exactly one hundred years ago. This mint was responsible for producing the pengő coins, as the new national currency introduced on 1 January 1927. These coins bore the mint mark BP., which has since been used on all Hungarian coins produced in Budapest for the last one hundred years. Our circulation set includes the full series of 2026 circulation forint coins (5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and 200 forints).
