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3000 Forint Hungarian Coinage Millennium
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central device presents a faithful artistic reproduction of the seal of King Saint Ladislaus (László I) of Hungary, depicted as an equestrian figure in full armor galloping to the left, rendered in high relief within a circular medallion with beaded and rope-pattern borders characteristic of medieval royal seals. The Latin legend 'SANCTVS LADISLAVS REX VNGARIE' encircles the equestrian image within the inner border of the medallion. The outer margin of the coin carries the Hungarian inscription 'EZERÉVES A MAGYAR PÉNZVERÉS' (A Thousand Years of Hungarian Coinage) in Gothic blackletter script, commemorating the millennium of Hungarian minting. A series of small decorative lozenge and dash ornaments embellishes the flat border between the outer legend and the raised rim. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hungary's coinage millennium commemorates the moment in 1001 AD when Pope Sylvester II granted Stephen I both a royal crown and the ecclesiastical authority to organize the Hungarian church independently — a political arrangement that effectively bound the nascent Hungarian state to Rome rather than Byzantium, a choice with consequences that shaped Central European politics for centuries. The crown itself, the Holy Crown of Hungary, became so constitutionally central that it was used as the basis of Hungarian law until 2011.
The 2001 issue marks the 1000th anniversary of Stephen's coronation, not the founding of the state, a distinction Hungarian authorities were careful to observe.