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100 Forint Ignác Semmelweis
| Issuer | Hungarian State Mint (Magyar Pénzverde), Budapest |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Weight | 8.41 g |
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| Reverse description | The coat of arms of the Hungarian People's Republic occupies the central field, depicting a Soviet-style shield surmounted by a five-pointed star and encircled by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon at the base. A ring of small five-pointed stars borders the lower half of the field. The denomination SZÁZ FORINT (One Hundred Forints) arcs along the upper legend, while the mint mark BP. and date 1968 appear below the arms, with the numeral 100 inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | SZÁZ FORINT BP. 1968 100 (Translation: Hundred forints) |
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Issued in 1968 to mark the 150th anniversary of Semmelweis's birth, this coin honors the physician whose discovery of antiseptic procedure in the 1840s was rewarded, during his lifetime, with institutional ridicule. His insistence that doctors wash their hands between the dissection room and the maternity ward at Vienna General Hospital cost him his position. He died in 1865 in a psychiatric institution, likely of the same septicemia he had spent decades trying to prevent.
The Hungarian State Mint struck this series in limited numbers for the collector market, part of a broader socialist-era program of gold commemoratives celebrating national scientific figures.