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500 Forint World Football Championship
| Issuer | Hungarian Mint, Budapest |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Weight | 28 g |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGYAR NÉPKÖZTÁRSASÁG 500 FORINT BP. 1981 (Translation: Hungarian People's Republic) |
| Reverse description | A stylized composition featuring a football and a perspectival rendering of a football pitch with goal markings, depicted in high relief against a mirror-polished proof field. The legend LABDARÚGÓ VILÁGBAJNOKSÁG is arranged in three lines around the upper and lateral periphery, reading 'Football World Championship'. The year 1982 appears prominently at the base, referencing the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Spain. The engraver's monogram Kz is present in the lower right field. |
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Hungary's qualification for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain — their seventh World Cup appearance — gave the state mint sufficient political cover to issue this piece ahead of the tournament. The Hungarian national team, historically strong in the 1950s but inconsistent since, would go on to suffer a catastrophic 10-1 group-stage defeat to El Salvador in Elche, still the largest margin of loss in Hungarian international football history.
The .640 silver fineness is characteristic of Hungarian commemorative policy in this period, deliberately lower than the .900 standard used by most Western mints, keeping production costs down on issues primarily targeting the domestic collector market.