5 Forint

The 1955 Hungarian 5 Forint belongs to the post-stabilization series introduced after the catastrophic 1946 hyperinflation — the worst ever recorded — which had rendered the preceding pengő worthless at a ratio of 400 octillion pengő to one forint. By 1955, the forint was a decade old and the Magyar Nemzeti Bank was issuing standardized notes under Soviet-aligned economic reorganization.

The series was printed by the Hungarian Banknote Printing Company (Pénzjegynyomda) in Budapest, which had been nationalized by this point. Lower denominations like this saw heavy circulation and survivors in clean condition are genuinely uncommon.