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100 Forint Ferenc Liszt
| Issuer | Hungarian Mint, Budapest |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Value | 100 Forint (100 HUF) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Bare-headed right-facing portrait bust of the composer Ferenc Liszt rendered in high relief at centre, depicting him in later life with flowing hair and characteristic strong features. The legend 'LISZT FERENC EMLÉKÉV' curves along the upper periphery, while the birth and commemorative dates '1811 - 1961' are inscribed along the lower border, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Liszt's birth, this piece belongs to a short run of Hungarian gold commemoratives produced in the early 1960s under the Kádár government — an ideologically selective program that nevertheless embraced Liszt, whose international prestige made him useful propaganda regardless of political moment. Hungary had claimed Liszt as a national figure for over a century despite his ambivalent relationship with the country; he spoke little Hungarian and spent most of his adult life in Weimar and Rome.
The .986 fineness places it among the purest gold issues of the period from any Eastern Bloc mint.