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12000 Forint

Issuer HÍD Numizmatikai és Kulturális Közhasznú Egyesület
Year 2010
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Designer(s) HÍD
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Reverse description Central vignette after Holló Barnabás's 1895 relief, depicting flood rescue scene. A quoted passage from Baron Wesselényi's 1838 diary entry appears at upper left, with denomination and issue details at right.
Reverse lettering ADOMÁNYJEGY 12000 FORINT AZ ÁRVÍZ ÉS VÖRÖSISZAP KÁROSULTJAINAK JAVÁRA BUDAPEST 2010. NOVEMBER "Már ekkor kezdettek a házak omlani s düledezni. Ezeknek ropogása, rohanása, a víz közt emelkedő porfellegek, a rémítő sikoltás, sírás, ordítás borzasztó képét mutatta a duló enyészetnek." Részlet Báró Wesselényi Miklós naplójából 1838. MÁRCIUS 14. TIZENKÉTEZER FORINT Holló Barnabás, 1895
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HÍD ("Bridge") is a Hungarian numismatic and cultural association that has issued a series of fantasy or commemorative forint notes outside the official Magyar Nemzeti Bank system. These carry no legal tender status and circulate — if at all — as collector pieces or promotional material. The denomination itself, 12,000 forint, has no equivalent in any official Hungarian series, which is part of the point.

The association designed the piece in-house, which is worth noting given how rarely non-commercial organizations handle both conception and production of a banknote-format item without contracting a specialist printer.

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