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George II Rákóczi
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central oval medallion with an intaglio-style bust portrait of George II Rákóczi in three-quarter view, attired in a fur-trimmed hat with feather plume and a draped cloak with clasp detail. The medallion is set against a fine crosshatch guilloche ground and enclosed within an elaborate symmetrical underprint of acanthus-scroll and floral arabesques in sepia-brown, filling the entire note field to a plain outer border. |
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| Reverse description | Central rectangular vignette with a period photographic view of the Rákóczi monument in Cluj, figures visible on the stone steps at its base, flanked left and right by large circular guilloche rosettes within lace-pattern underprint panels and ornamental corner devices. A trilingual city-name inscription arches across the top of the note, with a bilingual monument inscription in a framed panel below the central vignette and the designer's name printed in the lower left margin outside the border. |
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György II Rákóczi ruled Transylvania from 1648 until his catastrophic and unsanctioned invasion of Poland in 1657 — a campaign that ended in military disaster, cost him Ottoman support, and ultimately destabilized Transylvania for a generation. Issuing a note in his honor in 2026 places him alongside the earlier Rákóczi series that the Magyar Nemzeti Bank has used to anchor its commemorative program to Transylvanian princely history.
Szász C. Ádám has handled several recent Hungarian commemorative designs. Whether this issue carries a face value or functions purely as a collector piece will determine its pickup in the philatelic market.