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1 000 000 Milpengő

Issuer Magyar Nemzeti Bank
Year 1946
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Reference(s) P#128
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Protection type Watermark
Protection description the Magyar Nemzeti Bank monogram or pattern visible in the paper when held to light
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Hungary's post-World War II hyperinflation remains the worst ever recorded in history. By mid-1946, prices were doubling roughly every fifteen hours, and the pengő was being replaced by denominations that strained comprehension — the milpengő unit, equivalent to one million pengős, was itself so devalued that the one-million milpengő note represented one trillion original pengős. It was a unit created specifically because printing the actual number of zeros had become impractical.

The forint replaced the entire pengő series on 1 August 1946. The conversion rate was 400 octillion pengős to one forint.

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