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Showing posts with label Hungary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungary. Show all posts

Friday, April 12, 2013

1971-BP Hungary 20 Fillér!


Simple yet cool. Modern yet old school. Those are a few phrases I can think of to describe this coin. A simple design yet one that I find pleasing. Modern (on the obverse) yet old school (with the wheat, a symbol of farming, on the reverse). I also like how the color of the coin matches the color of the paper when it's dark enough out. It'd pretty much worthless in exchange value it was still spendable. Looks like it's just a filler in my collection. It's worth about $0.05.

Monday, October 29, 2012

1977-BP Hungarian Forint!


Here's a nice coin. The rim is mostly worn off (not like there was one there in the first place) and there's some gunk between the shield and the wheat. This aluminum coin did well in its years in circulation, which were probably not many. However, there were enough years to almost completely wear off the mint mark which is under the 1. The BP stands for Budapest, the place where this coin was minted, and from the looks of the Wikipedia article, it's a pretty nice place. This coin is worth about $0.10.