The Magyar Nemzeti Bank is issuing a silver collector coin of 10,000 forints and its 2,000-forint non-ferrous metal version named ‘XXXII. Nyári Olimpiai és XVI. Nyári Paralimpiai Játékok’ (Games of the XXXII Olympiad and the XVI Paralympic Games) today. The MNB has issued collector coins with regards to the biggest and most popular sporting events since 1984, but for the first time, collector coins, designed by applied artist Zoltán Endrődy, will also honour athletes competing in the Paralympic Games.
The Games of the XXXII Olympiad and the XVI Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo in summer 2021. To honour these events and to also recognise the achievements of Hungarian athletes, the MNB will issue a silver collector coin with a face value of 10,000 forints and its 2,000-forint non-ferrous metal version. Tokyo will host this global sporting event for the second time. This time, new sports will be included or reinserted in the programme: in addition to baseball/softball, surfing, skateboarding, climbing wall and karate are added to the Olympic events while badminton and taekwondo to the paralympic events replacing yacht racing and the football played by teams of seven visually-impaired players. 11,000 athletes will participate in 339 events in 33 sports at the 2021 Olympics. Consistent with expectations, 150-160 members of the Hungarian Olympic Team will represent Hungary. The best at 22 sports will compete in 540 events at the Paralympic Games. Hungarian Paralympic athletes stand a chance to qualify in 13 sports. Based on results in recent years, they can win gold medals in various sports.
The ‘XXXII. Nyári Olimpiai és XVI. XVI. Nyári Paralimpiai Játékok’ collector coins play their primary role as a store of value and to raise awareness of the athletes’ achievements they are not to be used in everyday payments. Their face value serves to preserve the value the coins represent to collectors.
The silver and the non-ferrous metal versions are issued with the same design, with their denominations being the only difference. Designed by applied artist Zoltán Endrődy, these collector coins focus attention on the Hungarian Olympic and Paralympic teams in their design by enhancing sports Hungarian sportspeople are successful at.
Therefore, as a central motif on the obverse, an abstract representation of kayaking, swimming and fencing is shown. These sports are considered a success among all Hungarian sportspeople. The athletes, represented in forms broken into geometric planes (canoeist, swimmer and a fencer in a wheelchair) are to represent the partnership and the integration of the two Hungarian teams. The lettering ‘MAGYAROSZÁG’ (Hungary) is placed around the representation of the athletes with the two endpoints connected by a circular line running on the edge. The compulsory design elements of legal tender are found on the obverse: the denominations ‘10 000’ and ‘2000 FORINT’, the mint year ‘2021’ and the mint mark ‘BP.’ containing security features in micro lettering. Visible when magnified at least 10,000, a microlettering, identical with the specific letter in the mint mark, is placed in the mint mark and it also provides protection against counterfeiting. The master mark of Zoltán Endrődy, the designer of the coin, is shown to the left of the fencer in a wheelchair.
The obverse of the ‘XXXII. Nyári Olimpiai és XVI. Nyári Paralimpiai Játékok’ collector coins
 Silver collector coin |
 Non-ferrous metal collector coin |
On the reverse, the logos of the Hungarian Olympic Team, representing cohesion and of the Hungarian Paralympic Team enhancing equality, are seen which is framed by the lettering ‘MAGYAR OLIMPIAI ÉS PARALIMPIAI CSAPAT’ (Hungarian Olympic and Paralympic Team) on the edge of the reverse and the line connecting the endpoints of the lettering. Next to the logos, on the left and the right-hand side, the official name of the games of five rings, the inscription ‘TOKYO 2020’ is placed broken in two parts. This is the first time in the history of the world’s biggest sporting events that the Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed due to the pandemic caused by coronavirus, and this postponement did not entail a change in the name.
The reverse of the ‘XXXII. Nyári Olimpiai és XVI. Nyári Paralimpiai Játékok’ collector coins
 Silver collector coin |
 Non-ferrous metal collector coin |
Both collector coins are 37 mm in diameter. Their edge is reeded. The silver coin with a face value of HUF 10,000 is struck in .925 fine silver and weighs 24 grams. The non-ferrous metal coin with a face value of HUF 2,000 is produced from an alloy of copper (75%) and nickel (25%) and weighs 23.7 grams. 5,000 pieces can be made of the silver collector coin in proof finish and 5,000 pieces of the non-ferrous version in BU finish.
To promote the collector coins' value transferring role and to let them raise awareness as widely as possible, the ‘XXXII. Nyári Olimpiai és a XVI. Nyári Paralimpiai Játékok’ silver commemorative coin can be purchased for three months, while stocks last, and the non-ferrous metal version for one year, at their face value, at the Hungarian Mint Ltd., the producer and the distributor of the coins from 4 June 2021.