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50 Forint Republic of Councils
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 1969 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1969 BP. - - 12,000 1969 BP. - Proof - 3,000 |
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This coin marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 — the short-lived communist state under Béla Kun that survived only 133 days before being crushed by Romanian military intervention and internal collapse. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank issued it as an explicitly ideological commemorative, a common practice in Hungarian numismatics throughout the Kádár era, when anniversaries of revolutionary events were routinely instrumentalized for political messaging.
The .640 silver fineness is characteristic of Hungarian commemoratives of this period, sitting below sterling to reduce costs while retaining the prestige of a silver issue.