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5 unusual facts about Hungarian forint


Békésszentandrás

In the early 1700s a magistrate, György Száraz received the territory for 32,000 Forints.

Hungarian adópengő

The adópengő (in English: tax pengő) was a unit of currency of Hungary between 1 January 1946 when it was introduced as part of a stabilisation attempt of the pengő and 31 July 1946 when both were replaced by the forint.

Hungarian National Bank

It is also responsible for issuing the national currency, the forint, controlling the cash circulation, setting the Central Bank base rate, publishing official exchange rates and managing the national reserves of foreign currency and gold to influence exchange rates.

Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project

It received 150 million HUF (€540,000) in support from the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary and 145,000 Euro from the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung in Germany.

Túró Rudi

The regular 31 gram bar and the óriás bar usually retail for about 70 Hungarian forints (about 24 euro cents) and 100 Hungarian forints (about 40 euro-cents), respectively.



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