100 Forint Revolution of 1848

Struck for the 150th anniversary of Hungary's March 1848 uprising against Habsburg rule, an insurrection that produced one of the most short-lived constitutional governments in Central European history before Russian intervention crushed it by August 1849. The revolutionary government had actually issued its own currency during that period — Kossuth notes — which were later declared worthless by Vienna as a deliberate act of financial punishment.