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500 Forint Zrínyi Miklós
| Issuer | Hungarian State Mint (Magyar Pénzverde) |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ZRINYI MIKLÓS 1508 - - 1566 500 BP. |
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Miklós Zrínyi — poet, military strategist, and Ban of Croatia — died in a hunting accident in 1664 under circumstances suspicious enough that contemporaries immediately blamed Habsburg intrigue. This coin was issued to mark the 300th anniversary of that death, part of a broader Hungarian effort in the 1960s to rehabilitate figures whose nationalism could be framed as anti-Habsburg resistance rather than anti-Soviet sentiment.
The .900 gold specification and 42-gram weight place it firmly in the tradition of Hungarian commemorative presentation pieces rather than circulation strikes — produced for foreign exchange revenue and collector sets, the standard instrument of hard-currency generation for the Hungarian mint throughout the Communist period.