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10 000 Forint István Homoki-Nagy
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | HOMOKI-NAGY ISTVÁN 1914-1979 |
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István Homoki-Nagy spent decades documenting Hungarian wildlife on film, producing shorts and features for the Budapest studio system that won international festival recognition through the 1950s and 1960s — a rare achievement for a nature filmmaker working behind the Iron Curtain, where raw film stock and equipment were chronically scarce. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank has issued collector commemoratives honoring Hungarian cultural and scientific figures with some regularity, and this 2014 issue falls within that tradition rather than marking any round anniversary of his birth or death.
Homoki-Nagy died in 1979. The thirty-five year gap between his death and this coin's issue has no obvious institutional explanation in the public record.