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1 Forint London
| Issuer | Hungarian Revolutionary Government (Kossuth) |
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| Year | 1860-1861 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S146 |
| Obverse description | Uniface note with a central denomination numeral '1' within a circular guilloche medallion at top center, flanked by the multilingual denomination inscriptions 'Ein Gulden' (German) at upper left, 'Jeden zlaty' (Slovak) at upper right, 'Egy Forint' (Hungarian) at lower left in Cyrillic script, and 'Єдань форинть' at lower right. The central text panel carries the Hungarian-language redemption text in letterpress, signed in facsimile by Kossuth beneath the legend 'A nemzet nevében' (In the name of the nation), with a serial number below and the Hungarian coat of arms at the bottom center, the entire design enclosed within an ornate engine-turned border. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is blank. |
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Lajos Kossuth issued these notes from exile in a genuine attempt to finance a second Hungarian revolution he expected to launch with Italian and French backing. The timing was deliberate — Kossuth was negotiating with Cavour during the lead-up to Italian unification, and the notes were printed in London in anticipation of a military campaign that never materialized after Villafranca ended Franco-Austrian hostilities in 1859 and left him without the allied support he needed.
Because the planned uprising collapsed before the notes could be distributed, almost no examples entered circulation. They were effectively stillborn currency, printed but never deployed.