Word: forints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Budapesters first saw the bright, handsome new forints (introduced last August just as the pengo was inflated to 500,000,000,000,000,000 times its original value), they compared the coins with bald, homely Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, who was advertised as the father of the forint, and cracked: "It must have had a beautiful mother...