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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3524520, member: 46237&quot;]I&#039;ve been working on my Hungarian modern type set lately. As far as modern patterns, I have a few nice examples of Soviet-era Hungarian patterns (these tended to have a mintage of 2,000 pieces). I had no post-Soviet patterns though as they are all very low mintage (typically 10-50 pieces) and don&#039;t come up for sale all that often. So, the other night when I stumbled on a reasonably priced Hungarian pattern from 1992, I had to add it to my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Third Hungarian Republic was established in October of 1989 after the end of communism, and Soviet troops withdrew from Hungary starting in 1990 and were gone by June of 1991. While Hungarian coinage was struck in 1990, the majors were all one-year transition types. These were identical to the Soviet-era types except for the change in the name of the government in the legend. After these transition issues, a new set of majors for Hungarian coinage were designed for release into circulation in 1992.</p><p><br /></p><p>Radically different designs were produced to replace the 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 forint coins. Additionally the new circulating denominations of 50, 100, and 200 (silver) forint were created.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hungary 1992BP 5 Forint</b></p><p>Pattern of KM-694 in Proof</p><p>Nickel-Brass</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is a pattern of the 1992 5 forint KM-694. Of this pattern, 50 pieces were struck with a business strike finish, and 50 were struck with a proof finish. This example is one of the proofs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The major difference between this pattern and the circulating version is the &quot;Probaveret&quot; legend above and to the right of the denomination - as I believe this version was accepted without additional changes. When I get it in hand I will scrutinize it further, as I have noticed the design changes in modern patterns can be very subtle.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]936178[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]936179[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]936180[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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