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100 Forint Sándor Kőrösi Csoma
| Issuer | Hungarian Mint, Budapest |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Value | 100 Forint (100 HUF) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a Tibetan script panel bearing the sacred mantra ཨཱོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། (oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ), which divides the date and denomination. The encircling legend reads MAGYAR NÉPKÖZTÁRSASÁG (Hungarian People's Republic) along the upper periphery, with the denomination 100 FORINT and date 1984 flanking the central device. The mintmark BP. and the engraver's name KUTAS appear in the lower field. The design reflects the coin's thematic connection to Tibetan culture and scholarship. |
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| Reverse description | Half-length portrait of Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, the renowned Hungarian Orientalist, philologist, and explorer, facing left, rendered in high relief with fine detail to his period dress. He is depicted in a dignified, scholarly pose befitting his status as the compiler of the first Tibetan-English dictionary. The legend KŐRÖSI CSOMA SÁNDOR arcs along the upper periphery, with the commemorative dates 1784-1984 marking the bicentenary of his birth flanking the portrait. The engraver's name KUTAS appears in the lower field. |
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Sándor Kőrösi Csoma was the Hungarian philologist who, in the 1820s, traveled to Central Asia on foot in search of the original homeland of the Magyar people and ended up producing the first Tibetan-English dictionary instead. He died in Darjeeling in 1842, still planning an expedition to Lhasa. The 1984 issue marks the 150th anniversary of that dictionary's publication by the Asiatic Society of Bengal.