Hungarian forint added in 2006. Banknotes that were previously in circulation are withdrawn and recycled as materials for briquettes. All banknotes are 154 × 70 mm in size. Most traded currencies (from 31 December 1990): Currencies of nearby countries (from 31 December 2010): Hungarian forint The forint (sign: Ft; code: HUF) is the currency of Hungary. It was formerly divided into 100 fillér, but fillér coins are no longer in circulation. The introduction of the forint on 1 August 1946 was a crucial step in the post-World War II stabilisation of the Hungarian economy, and the currency remained relatively stable until the
Hungarian forint Hungarian abbreviation for forint is "Ft", which is written after the number with a space between. The name fillér, the subdivision of all Hungarian currencies since 1925, comes from the German word "Heller". The abbreviation for the fillér was "f", also written after the number with a space in between. In 1946, a USD was worth 11.7 forints. After its 1946 introduction, the forint remained stable for the following two decades, but started to lose its purchasing power as the state-socialist economic system (Planned economy) lost its competitiveness during the 1970s and 1980s. After the democratic change of 1989–90, the