Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 000 Forint
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank |
|---|---|
| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Intaglio printing |
| Protection description | Ferenc Deák's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note; the obverse portrait and key design elements providing a tactile raised effect. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The 20,000 forint was the highest denomination Hungary had issued in the post-communist period when it entered circulation in 1999, a reflection of the cumulative inflation damage the forint had absorbed through the early 1990s. Hungary avoided hyperinflation on the scale of some neighboring transition economies, but a 1995 austerity package — the Bokros Plan — was still working through the system when this note was designed.
Magyar Pénzjegynyomda has printed Hungarian currency continuously since 1925, one of relatively few central European countries to have maintained domestic banknote production through the entire communist period and beyond. Vagyóczky handling both design and obverse engraving on a single issue is worth noting — that kind of unified authorship over a note's primary face is not common in modern production.