50 000 Forint Ferenc Liszt - Piedfort

Issued to mark the bicentenary of Liszt's birth in Raiding — then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now Burgenland, Austria — this piedfort strikes at double the planchet thickness of the standard circulation-quality commemorative, a format reserved by the Hungarian Mint for collector issues where tactile distinction matters. Liszt himself spent little of his adult life in Hungary and spoke German rather than Hungarian, a biographical inconvenience that never diminished his status as the country's foremost cultural export.