2020-01-31 Fri

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Its capital, Budapest, is bisected by the Danube River. Its cityscape is studded with architectural landmarks from Buda’s medieval Castle Hill and grand neoclassical buildings along Pest’s Andrássy Avenue to the 19th-century Chain Bridge.

The forint is the currency of Hungary. It was formerly divided into 100 filler. The forint's name comes from the city of Florence, where gold coins called fiorino d'oro were minted.

Today we are looking at a 500 Forint banknote issued in 2006. The obverse has official Coat of Arms to centre-left top and the portrait of Ferenc Rakoczi to right. Ferenc Rakoczi was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11 as the prince of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

The reverse depicts Orszaghaz – Hungarian Parliament in Budapest in background with the Hungarian flag with a big hole in it in left foreground depicting the 50th Anniversary of anti-Soviet upraising in Hungary. This note has the portrait of Rakoczi Ferenc as its watermark.

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