30 000 Forint Petőfi Sándor

Petőfi Sándor died at the Battle of Segesvár in July 1849 at age 26 — though his body was never recovered, and the exact circumstances of his death remain disputed to this day. He had been serving under General Bem in the Transylvanian campaign when Russian forces intervening on behalf of the Habsburgs overwhelmed the Hungarian revolutionary army. The Hungarian War of Independence collapsed within weeks.

Magyar Nemzeti Bank has issued Petőfi commemoratives across multiple series and decades; this 2023 piece continues a tradition rooted less in numismatic novelty than in the poet's enduring function as the central symbol of Hungarian national identity since 1848.