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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3866286, member: 46237&quot;]A new pickup from over the weekend:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hungary 50 Forint 1972BP</b></p><p><b>Pattern Proof of KM-596</b></p><p><i>Commemorating the 1000th Anniversary of the Birth of Saint (and King) Stephen</i></p><p><br /></p><p>As is typical for patterns from this period, 50 examples were struck as specimens of the business strike issue, and 50 examples were struck as specimens of the proof issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1022273[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t typically collect modern Hungarian commemoratives, as the mint started producing <i>way too many</i> starting in 1973, making the set prohibitively large to complete, and full of coins of little topical interest. Occasionally, they hit it out of the park with a really nice commemorative though, and this coin is one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pair of Saint Stephen commemoratives issued in 1972 are some of my favorite modern Hungarian commemoratives, and I couldn&#039;t pass up this beautiful example of a pattern proof issue of KM-596 with deep cameo. Adding more interest to this particular piece is that the reverse commemorates another Hungarian coin, the Saint Stephen denár issued (AD 997-1038).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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