50 000 Forint Gold Florin of I Zsigmond - piedfort

This piedfort replicates the gold florin of Sigismund of Luxembourg, who ruled Hungary from 1387 to 1437 and remains one of the more consequential — and controversial — figures in late medieval Central European politics. His reign saw the catastrophic defeat at Nicopolis in 1396, where a crusading force he led was routed by Ottoman forces under Bayezid I, an outcome that accelerated Hungarian vulnerability on the southern frontier for generations. The original florins his mints produced were among the most widely circulated gold coins in 15th-century European trade networks.

Piedfort production at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank for this series involved striking at roughly double the standard planchet thickness, a format historically used for presentation pieces and royal gifts rather than circulation.