- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | DB05-0230 |
| Description: | 20 Forint |
| Country or State: | Hungary |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Currency: | Forint (1946-date) |
| Obverse: | Head of György Dózsa looking to the left, wearing a hat |
| Obverse Legend: | MAGYAR NÉPKÖZTÁRSASÁG DÓZSA |
| Reverse: | Denomination in the middle, surrounded by a wreath and under the Hungarian socialist coat of arms, separates date in the middle |
| Reverse Legend: | 19 84 BP. 20 FORINT |
| Edge: | Milled |
| Mint Mark: | BP (Budapest) |
| Engraver: | György Bognár |
| Orientation: | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Composition: | Brass |
| Diameter: | 26.8 mm |
| Thickness: | 1.75 mm |
| Weight: | 7.05 grams |
| Mintage: | 31,016,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 630 |
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György Dózsa (1470 - 20 July 1514) was a Székely Hungarian man-at-arms (and by some accounts, a nobleman) from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility. He was eventually caught, tortured, and executed along with his followers, and remembered as both a Christian martyr and a dangerous criminal. During the reign of king Vladislas II of Hungary (1490–1516), royal power declined in favour of the magnates, who used their power to curtail the peasants’ freedom. |