In 2005 the city council set aside a first 100 million forint for the project.

The 200 forint note was withdrawn on 16 November 2009.

When paying with cash, the total is to be rounded to 5 Forint.

In other ways, though, Hungary has made impressive progress using its own currency, the forint.

The forint has dropped 30% against the dollar since July.

The forint, now officially fixed at 60.7 to the dollar, will drop to 69.8.

Prices are for two, with wine but not tip, at 270 forint to $1.

The construction costs are estimated at 68 billion forint (approx.

Which country is getting into economic difficulty due to the weakening of its currency, the forint?

The news sent the Hungarian forint falling to a one-month low.

A new series of higher quality banknotes (10, 20 and 100 forint) were introduced in 1947-48.

By the way the forint is down because the central bank just increases it's monetary reserves hit record high in October.

Finally, no silver 5 forint coins were minted for general circulation after 1947.

Since 2001, inflation is single digit and the forint was declared fully convertible.

The 200 Forint coin was made of .500 fine silver.

Nevertheless, Hungary used the fable to promote a savings campaign on a 60 forint stamp in 1958.

On 10 October 2008, the Forint dropped by 10%.

The forint paper money consists of exclusively banknotes.

The parliament voted in favor of giving half a million forint to help with the construction of a new building for the museum.

After the democratic change of 1989-90, the forint saw yearly inflation figures of app.

The 1000 forint and higher denominations are protected by an interwoven holographic security strip.

International Hungary announced a 15 percent devaluation of its currency, the forint, effective Monday.

Though the forint has been relatively stable, the central bank intervened to support the currency today after it slipped about 2 percent against the dollar.

Foreign investment in Hungary is still limited by the nonconvertibility of the forint, the national currency.

Property worth more than this would be partially compensated on a sliding scale up to 5,000,000 forint.