2 Forint London

This note belongs to the emigration-era issue organized by Lajos Kossuth following the failure of the 1848–49 revolution and his subsequent exile. After the Habsburgs crushed the uprising with Russian military assistance, Kossuth spent years abroad — primarily in England and later Italy — attempting to build financial and political infrastructure for a second Hungarian revolutionary campaign that never materialized. The London printing was a deliberate choice: British sympathy for the Hungarian cause ran high, and Kossuth had substantial public support there.

The issue was never redeemed. No functioning revolutionary state existed to honor it.