20 000 Forint Hungarian Millennium

Issued to mark Hungary's millennium — specifically the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian state by Stephen I, crowned on Christmas Day in the year 1000 — this piece belongs to a broader commemorative program the Hungarian National Bank ran across 1999 and 2000. The .986 fineness places it among the higher-purity modern gold issues in the series, consistent with Hungarian commemorative gold practice of the late 1990s.