Hungarian Mint

10 000 hungarian forint

31,46 g

38,61 mm

Silver 925°

4 000 pcs

Proof

Balázs PELTZ sculptor

Hungarian Mint

The front shows a bare tree in a grassy, wind-swept landscape, with a key motif from Pilinszky’s poem “Apocryph”: the rising sun, like a wide-open eye with a magnified iris and pupil. The back bears a half-portrait of Pilinszky, showing a thoughtful melancholy poet leaning against a tree.

Pilinszky’s poetry was influenced by his concentration camp experiences, his Christian existentialism, his objective lyricism and his Catholic faith. Pilinszky draws his readers into a comprehensive world of personality, desire, love, guilt and jeopardy, his language is full of passion. The coin is a worthy and incredibly beautiful transcript of his oeuvres.