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3000 Forint mRNA Vaccines
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 3000 Forint |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the square flan features a stylised artistic rendering of two intertwined messenger RNA (mRNA) double-helix strands depicted in relief, their coiled structures rendered with precise mechanical detail. The legend MAGYARORSZÁG is inscribed in the lower field, with the denomination 3000 FORINT arranged on two lines beneath it. The year of issue 2022 and the Budapest Mint mark BP. appear in the lower exergual area. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hungary issued this coin to mark its role in mRNA vaccine development — a claim grounded in the work of biochemist Katalin Karikó, whose decades of research on mRNA modification, largely conducted at the University of Pennsylvania after she was demoted and nearly defunded, formed the platform on which the BNT162b2 vaccine was built. She shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Drew Weissman for that work. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank has a well-established commemorative program in copper-nickel at this weight, typically targeting scientific and cultural themes for domestic circulation premiums.