National Bank releases Jókai commemorative coin

These are a silver commemorative coin with a face value of 20,000 forints and a non-ferrous metal commemorative coin with a face value of 3,000 forints. Jókai was one of the most important writers of Hungarian literature. With the commemorative coins, the MNB is honouring the great ‘Hungarian storyteller’ and his cultural heritage.

The Ministry of Culture launched the Jókai Year of Culture on Tuesday with a series of programmes throughout the Carpathian Basin. The cult of Jókai, which still flourishes in the Carpathian Basin, is fuelled by the author’s work, which includes more than a hundred novels, a thousand short stories and thousands of newspaper articles, as well as by the classic films and stage plays based on his novels, Minister Balázs Hankó said at the opening of the Jókai Year in Balatonfüred on Tuesday.