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Classic Hungarian Gold Coin Recreated on Modern Legal Tender
The 50,000 forint legal tender gold coin is modeled after a coin minted for Janos Hunyadi (1446-1453) now in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum. It corresponds to No. 14 in Friedberg’s Gold Coins of the World. Today, these originals usually sell for a few thousand dollars.
The obverse of the coin duplicates the original with a four-part coat of arms with the four Arpad stripes and a double cross representing Hungary, and a raven with a ring. In the field next to the coin image is a standing knight. The center of the reverse has an exact copy of the original coin with St. Ladislas standing holding a battle axe and orb.
The coin comes in three versions: 1) The most exclusive is a quadruple piedfort, extra thick and four times the weight of the regular issue and with an authorized mintage of only 500 coins. 2) a gold-ducat sized prooflike uncirculated regular issues weighing 3.491 grams and limited to a maximum of 2,000 coins; and 3) a copper-nickel-zinc brilliant uncirculated 2,000 forint version with the same design, limited to 5,000 pieces.
John Hunyadi is best remembered for the Battle of Belgrade (July 21-22, 1456), when he and his troops had to suffer through terrible losses before they could destroy the Ottoman forces. In a battle at Varna in 1444 he was captured by Vlad II Dracul, now better known as Count Dracula. Today, John Hunyadi is considered a national hero.
Prooflike
.986 gold
2,000 mintage
20 mm
3.491g |
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