1 Forint London

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.