5000 Forint (Sándor Weöres) Coin

5000 Forint (Sándor Weöres)

Country: Hungary
Denomination: 5000 Forint 5000 HUF = 18 USD
Year: 2013
Material: Silver (.925)
Weight: 20 g
Shape: Round
Diameter: 34 mm
Type: Non circulating coin
Catalog list: hungary

Description:

Obverse

Sándor Weöres (1913-1989) one of the most individual authors of the modern Hungarian literature. Awarded by the Baumgarten Literary Prize (1936), by the Kossuth Prize (1970) and by the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1974).

Generations raised up on his poems full of colours and melodies. Masterful translator from English, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Italian and Latin. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank commemorates his centennial birth anniversary with this silver masterpiece.

Sándor Weöres casually seated in a windowframe.

Reverse

Lettering:
MAGYARORSZÁG

WERS

SÁÖS

NEO

DR

2013 BP.

5000 FORINT

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