Kiskunság National Park Collector Coins

The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) will issue a silver collector coin of HUF 10,000 and its non-ferrous metal version with a face value of HUF 2,000 on September 2, 2020 to honor the 45th anniversary of the foundation of Hungary’s second national park.

The vertical rectangle special collector coins will be issued as a piece of the series depicting national parks, which was launched in 2010. The coin follows earlier issuances presenting the Őrség, the Duna-Dráva, the Duna-Ipoly and the Bükk National Parks. The Kiskunság National Park collector coin was designed by applied artist, Gábor Kereszthury.

A statement by MNB says the Kiskunság National Park was founded in 1975 to honour the co-existence of man and nature for hundreds of years in the Danube–Tisza Interfluve. Shaped into a territory of cultural significance, the Kiskunság network with a mosaic arrangement, consists of nine patch types. Its most valuable areas include the saline soils and lakes in the Duna valley, the sand dunes, the junipers and poplars of the Sand Plateau of the Danube–Tisza interfluve (Homokhátság), backwaters and floodplain forests of the Upper Tisza Region, as well as the grasslands and the yellow soil patches of North Bácska, preserved in nearly its natural state.

Two-thirds of the national park of over 50,000 hectares was designated as a biosphere reserve under the UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme in 1979. Lake Kolon, located in its territory, is considered the only biogenetic reserve in Hungary. Lake Kolon in Izsák, the saline lakes of Upper Kiskunság, certain areas in the Pusztaszer and Mártély Landscape Protection Area are deemed as wetlands in line with the Ramsar Convention of international importance.