Hungarian forint of the European Union, the long-term aim of the Hungarian government may be to replace the forint with the euro, but that does not appear to be likely until some time during the 2020s. The forint's name comes from the city of Florence, where gold coins called "fiorino d'oro" were minted from 1252. In Hungary, "florentinus" (later "forint"), also a gold-based currency, was used from 1325 under Charles Robert and several other countries followed its example. Between 1868 and 1892 the forint was the name used in Hungarian for the currency of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, known in German as the
Coins of the Hungarian forint too high, approximately 4 times their face value. When paying with cash, the total is to be rounded to 5 Forint. The 200 forint notes have been replaced with a new 200 forint coin in 2009. The Chain Bridge was chosen in an internet poll between October 13 and October 26, 2008 to be on the coin. The coin entered circulation on 15 June 2009. Reportedly, the 1 Forint coin was illegally exported to Canada in significant amounts, as the tiny coin could be used in place of genuine tokens for entry at the underground railway's automatic gates. This was