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10 000 Forint The castle of Kőszeg
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGYARORSZÁG 2015 BP. 10000 FORINT Jurisics Miklós |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Kőszeg's castle earned its place in Hungarian national memory from the 1532 siege, when a Croatian-Hungarian garrison of perhaps 700–800 men under Captain Nikola Jurišić held off the advance guard of Suleiman the Great's Ottoman army for nearly three weeks. The delay — though the castle ultimately surrendered under negotiated terms — is credited with preventing a full Ottoman assault on Vienna that campaign season.
The Magyar Nemzeti Bank has issued regional castle series commemoratives with some regularity; this piece belongs to that ongoing program celebrating fortifications tied to moments of particular historical weight.