2000 Forint Gold Florin of Albert Habsburg

This piece reproduces the gold florin struck under Albert of Habsburg during his brief reign as King of Hungary from 1437 to 1439 — a turbulent interlude between the long rule of Sigismund of Luxembourg and the contested succession that followed Albert's death from dysentery during a campaign against the Ottomans. The Hungarian florin itself was among the most trusted trade coins in late medieval Europe, its gold content held remarkably consistent from the Angevin introduction of the denomination in 1325 onward.

Part of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank's ongoing series restoring historical Hungarian coinage types in base-metal collector format.