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10 000 Forint Ödön Lechner
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ödön Lechner (1845–1914) spent much of his career dismissed by the Habsburg architectural establishment, yet his synthesis of Hungarian folk motifs with Art Nouveau form produced buildings — the Applied Arts Museum and the Postal Savings Bank among them — that became defining national monuments. This coin marks the centenary of his death. The National Bank issued it within a broader commemorative program honoring figures central to Hungarian cultural identity in the post-Compromise period.
The Postal Savings Bank in Budapest, completed 1901, remains the most technically adventurous of his works — Lechner reportedly remarked that the birds on its roof would carry the decorative program skyward, where no critic could reach it.