- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | DB05-0227 |
| Description: | 5 Forint |
| Country or State: | Hungary |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Currency: | Forint (1946-date) |
| Obverse: | Lajos Kossuth facing right |
| Obverse Legend: | MAGYAR NÉPKÖZTÁRSASÁG KOSSUTH |
| Reverse: | Small shield above denomination separating date with BP between shield and numeral |
| Reverse Legend: | 5 FORINT 1989 BP. |
| Edge: | Milled |
| Mint Mark: | BP (Budapest) |
| Orientation: | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Composition: | Copper-Nickel |
| Diameter: | 23.4 mm |
| Thickness: | 1.6 mm |
| Weight: | 5.0 grams |
| Mintage: | 39,014,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 635 |
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Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Regent-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe. Kossuth's bronze bust can be found in the United States Capitol with the inscription: "Father of Hungarian Democracy, Hungarian Statesman, Freedom Fighter, 1848–1849". |