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100 Forint Zrínyi Miklós
| Issuer | Hungarian Mint |
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| Year | 1966 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | BP. Hungarian Mint, Budapest, Hungary (1925-date) |
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This piece was issued to mark the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Szigetvár, where Nikola Zrinski — the Croatian-Hungarian commander — held the fortress against Suleiman the Magnificent's Ottoman forces for over a month with fewer than 3,000 defenders. Suleiman died during the siege, though the Ottomans suppressed the news for weeks to prevent a collapse in morale. Zrinski himself was killed leading a final sortie on September 7, 1566.
The Hungarian People's Republic issuing commemoratives in gold during the mid-1960s was itself an ideological curiosity — these pieces were produced almost entirely for the hard-currency export market rather than domestic circulation.