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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 ...
The Hungarian National Bank has announced the withdrawal of the 1000 forint notes issued prior to 2006. This affects the 1000 forint note from the current series, but without the red metallic strip on the obverse side, i.e. also the Millennium issue. These notes remained in circulation until August 31, 2007.
In 1946, coins were introduced in denominations of 2, 10, 20 fillérs and 1, 2, 5 forints. The silver 5 forint coin was reissued only in the next year; later it was withdrawn from circulation. Five and 50 fillérs coins were issued in 1948. In 1967, a 5 forint coin was reintroduced, followed by a 10 forint in 1971 and 20 forint in 1982.
From 1996, a bimetallic 100 forint coin was minted to replace the 1992 version, which was considered too big and ugly and easily confused with the 20 forint coin. The 200 forint coin was made of .500 fine silver until 1994, when the price of the metal rose higher than the coin's face value. However, small issues for collectors were minted until ...
The adópengő was eventually replaced by the forint at a ratio of 200 million adópengő to one forint. The Ludas Matyi satirical magazine explains aptly the relationship between the pengő and the adópengő: "The pengő was the piece of paper that had no value, and the adópengő was used to measure the value of the pengő."
In June 2015, Orbán declared that his government would no longer entertain the idea of replacing the forint with the euro in 2020, as was previously suggested, and instead expected the forint to remain "stable and strong for the next several decades", [24] although, in July 2016, National Economy Minister Mihály Varga suggested that country ...
Hungarian forint Reason: Hyperinflation Ratio: 1 forint = 4 × 10 29 pengő Note: notes were denominated in milpengő and b.-pengő for practical reasons: Preceded by: Yugoslav 1920 dinar Reason: Hungarian occupation: Currency of Bačka, Međimurje (as part of Hungary) 1941 – 1945 Succeeded by: Yugoslav 1945 dinar
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