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50 Forint Sándor Petőfi
| Issuer | Hungarian Mint (Magyar Pénzverő) |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Magyar Népköztársaság 50 Forint BP. 1973 (Translation: Hungarian People's Republic 50 Forints BP. 1973) |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Petőfi's birth, this coin appeared during a curious moment in Hungarian cultural politics: the communist government had long claimed the revolutionary poet as a socialist forerunner, making official commemoration of his legacy ideologically convenient even as scholars quietly acknowledged the awkwardness of drafting a fiercely individualist nationalist into Marxist iconography. Petőfi died at Segesvár in 1849, almost certainly killed fighting the Habsburgs' Russian-backed forces, though his body was never recovered — a biographical gap that has fueled competing legends ever since.