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200 Forint Lúdas Matyi
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian Mint) |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2001 BP. - - 12,000 2001 BP. - In set - 5,000 2001 BP. - Proof - 5,000 |
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Lúdas Matyi is a peasant folk hero from Mihály Fazekas's 1804 verse tale — a goose-herder who is publicly flogged on the orders of a cruel landowner and swears to repay the humiliation three times over, which he does. The character became a durable symbol of class grievance in Hungarian culture, lending his name to a satirical newspaper that ran from 1945 to 1993. This commemorative brass piece was issued as part of Hungary's ongoing series celebrating national literary and folk figures ahead of EU accession, when such cultural flagging carried particular political weight.