Catalog
2000 Forint
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Károly Vagyóczky Reverse: György Pálinkás |
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| Reverse lettering | KÉTEZER FORINT BETHLEN GÁBOR TUDÓSAI KÖZÖTT PÁLINKÁS GY. SC. VAGYÓCZKY K. DEL. |
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| Protection description | Gábor Bethlen's portrait embedded in the paper; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The 2000 forint denomination was introduced specifically for the millennium — the year 2000 — rather than to fill a gap in everyday transactional use. Magyar Pénzjegynyomda has printed Hungarian banknotes continuously since 1923, surviving nationalization, occupation, and the hyperinflation of 1946 that remains the most severe recorded in history, when the pengő was replaced at a rate that rendered individual notes arithmetically absurd.
Viktor Madarász, credited on the reverse design, was a 19th-century Hungarian history painter known for large-scale dramatic canvases — his involvement here is posthumous, his work adapted as source material rather than commissioned.