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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2844916, member: 46237&quot;]An interesting story. In the early 1960s the Hungarian Mint discovered a trove of older mint holdings in a vault, which included the dies that would be used for the Artex restrikes, but in the vault also were bags of many older forint (typically MS61-63) and korona (typically MS63-65), along with smaller quantities of other coins, such as the 2 korona. These originals were offered by Artex to collectors along with the restrikes. There were sufficient quantities of original mint state koronas available that they decided not to restrike the later type (1912-1916) at all, and of the earlier type they only restruck 1894 and then only a few pieces were struck (I&#039;ve never seen one). There was also a modern restrike of the 1892 which is easily distinguished from an original. Here are the modern restrike sets: <a href="http://www.apvveret.hu/csomagolasok/index.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.apvveret.hu/csomagolasok/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.apvveret.hu/csomagolasok/index.php</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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