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The introduction of the forint on 1 August 1946 was a crucial step in the post-World War II stabilisation of the Hungarian economy, and the currency remained relatively stable until the 1980s. Transition to a market economy in the early 1990s adversely affected the value of the forint; inflation peaked at 35% in 1991.
1 August 1946 31 March 1948 31 March 1948 100 Ft 158 × 72 mm Dark blue Mrs. János Tőkés (Ms. Gizella Várszegi), an employee of the Banknote Printing Office, posed for the illustration Hands holding a hammer and ears of wheat 3 June 1946 7 August 1946 1 May 1951 31 December 1948 These images are to scale at 0.7 pixel per millimetre.
These banknotes were marked with a star in the serial number (1 pengő notes of 1938 with a star in the serial number are not Veszprém issues), and are much less common than those without it. Some of the 100 P banknotes were overstamped with a 1,000 P adhesive stamp – these were later replaced by the 1,000 P note of 1943.
On 1 August 1946, Hungary reintroduced the forint at a ratio of 400 octillion pengős to 1 (4 × 10 29 = 400 billion billion billion), dropping 29 zeroes from the old currency, or 200 000 000 adópengős to 1.
The 200 forint note was replaced with a new 200 forint coin on 15 June 2009, [3] decorated with the Chain Bridge, as chosen in an internet poll in October 2008. [4] Reportedly, large numbers of 1 forint coins were illegally used in Canada in place of subway tokens, a highly profitable trade until the machines were reprogrammed.
The Austro-Hungarian gulden (), also known as the florin (German & Croatian), forint (Hungarian; Croatian: forinta), or zloty (Polish: złoty reński; Czech: zlatý), was the currency of the lands of the House of Habsburg between 1754 and 1892 (known as the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867 and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after 1867), when it was replaced by the Austro-Hungarian krone as ...
8 forint / 20 frank 21 mm "MAGYAR KIRÁLYSÁG", Middle coat of arms, value, year of minting 1870 "MAGYAR KIRÁLYSÁG", Middle coat of arms (including Fiume), value, year of minting 1890 Coins of Hungary – bullion gold coins 1 dukát 19.75 mm "FERENCZ J. A. CSÁSZÁR" 9, standing I Ferenc József, mintmark "MAGYAR ORSZÁG AP.
The 10- and 20 fillér coins did circulate until the early '90s, and were removed in 1996. The last fillér coin, the 50 fillér (0.5 forint), was removed from circulation in 1999. [3] However, the fillér continues to be used in calculations, for example, in the price of petrol (e.g. 479.9 forint/litre), or in the prices of telephone calls.