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200 Forint Lúdas Matyi
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian Mint) |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 200 Forint |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts the full-length figure of Lúdas Matyi (Matthias the Gooseherd), the folk hero from Mihály Fazekas's eponymous 1804 narrative poem, standing facing left and holding a goose in his left hand. The figure is rendered in a naturalistic style evoking 18th-century peasant dress. The legend 'FAZEKAS MIHÁLY: LÚDAS MATYI' appears as an inscription within the field, attributing the literary source of the design. |
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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.