The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 7, February 13, 2005, Article 17

COMMEMORATING A NON-EVENT?

Yossi Dotan writes: "I wrote to the Hungarian National Bank
requesting information on a coin of that country. A PR expert
at their communication department, Böröcz Szilvia, dealt with
my request. She was extremely helpful, not only giving me the
exact wording and translation of the inscriptions on the coin
I asked about, but also pointing out that the coin was issued
to mark an event that was planned but did not happen.

The Hungarian coin is KM-705, 100 forint 1993, the subject
of which is Expo '96, a world exposition planned for 1996 in
Budapest. I remember vaguely having read once about a coin
issued to mark a visit by the British royal couple to one of the
members of the Commonwealth, but do not know about
which coin this was told.

Do the readers of The E-Sylum know of other such
non-event coins?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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