Catalog
2000 Forint
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 2000 Forint (2000 HUF) |
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| Obverse lettering | BETHLEN GÁBOR KÉTEZER FORINT MAGYAR NEMZETI BANK BUDAPEST 1998 ELNÖK ELNÖK ALELNÖK A BANKJEGYHAMISÍTÁS A TÖRVÉNY BÜNTETI VAGYÓCZKY K. DEL. ET SC. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries an intaglio vignette derived from Viktor Madarász's painting, presenting Gábor Bethlen seated among scholars and courtiers within a Renaissance interior, executed in warm brown tones over a guilloche underprint. The caption 'BETHLEN GÁBOR TUDÓSAI KÖZÖTT' is inscribed above the scene, with 'KÉTEZER FORINT' at upper right and the denomination '2000' set within a guilloche medallion at lower right. The engravers' credits 'PÁLINKÁS GY. SC. VAGYÓCZKY K. DEL.' appear in the lower margin. |
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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.