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<p>[QUOTE="talerman, post: 3108059, member: 89314"]Forint is the Hungarian word for fiorino or florin, the gold coin struck in Florence from 1252-1533 and copied in many countries including Hungary. The last ones in Hungary were struck under the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III in 1659. It was then replaced by a new denomination gold coin, the ducat. </p><p>The forint was reintroduced in the 19th century under Emperor Franz Joseph as a silver coin and lasted till 1892. It was reintroduced again as an aluminium coin in 1946 after post-War hyperinflation had destroyed the pengo, Hungary's currency between the World Wars. After the collapse of the Wall and the end of the Communist regime, a copper-zinc forint was introduced in 1992 but it was withdrawn from circulation in March 2008 as by then the cost of production was about 4 times face value. I believe the lowest denomination coin currently in circulation is a 5 Forint.</p><p><br /></p><p>What a sad decline and fall from the glorious coin posted by cmezner ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="talerman, post: 3108059, member: 89314"]Forint is the Hungarian word for fiorino or florin, the gold coin struck in Florence from 1252-1533 and copied in many countries including Hungary. The last ones in Hungary were struck under the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III in 1659. It was then replaced by a new denomination gold coin, the ducat. The forint was reintroduced in the 19th century under Emperor Franz Joseph as a silver coin and lasted till 1892. It was reintroduced again as an aluminium coin in 1946 after post-War hyperinflation had destroyed the pengo, Hungary's currency between the World Wars. After the collapse of the Wall and the end of the Communist regime, a copper-zinc forint was introduced in 1992 but it was withdrawn from circulation in March 2008 as by then the cost of production was about 4 times face value. I believe the lowest denomination coin currently in circulation is a 5 Forint. What a sad decline and fall from the glorious coin posted by cmezner ![/QUOTE]
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