2010 Hungary 5000Ft Silver Proof "Orseg"

• Mint: Hungarian Mint
• Denomination: 5,000 Forint
• Quality: Proof
• Issue limit: 5,000 pcs.
• Alloy: 92.5% Sterling Silver
• Diameter: 39.6 × 26.4 mm
• Weight: 31.46 grams
• Artist: Gábor Gáti
• Box/Capsule: No/Yes
• Certificate: Yes

Additional Information

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Issued on April 22, 2010 this coin was issued as a celebration to Earth Day and focuses on the beautiful Őrség National Park.

Since 1st March 2002 the Őrség National Park Directoate has been supervising the preservation of natural, ethnographical, culture-historical values which can be found on this wonderful land. The Őrség National Park consists of the Őrség, Vend country, the unregulated valley of River Rába, the Inner-Őrség and the neighbourhood of Szentgyörgy Valley. All together it covers 44 townships, on about 44,000 acres, whereof 3,086 acres are particularly protected. The whole territory of the national park is a Natura 2000 area under European Union-wide Protection.

The obverse features the Dusky Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea nausithous), the heraldic animal of the Őrség National Park, as its main design. The reverse depicts one of the buildings of the Őrség Folk Monument Museum in Szalafő-Pityerszer.