2000 Forint 200th Anniversary of Birth of Miklós Ybl

Miklós Ybl dominated Hungarian architecture across the second half of the nineteenth century with a productivity that was almost unreasonable — the Budapest Opera House, the reconstruction of Buda Castle's royal palace, the St. Stephen's Basilica completion after its dome collapsed in 1868. This coin marks the bicentennial of his 1814 birth. The Hungarian National Bank has issued commemorative forints in this copper-nickel format for decades, typically timed to anniversaries the cultural ministry deems significant enough to warrant a circulation-grade piece rather than a silver proof.