Great Hungarians series, Lajos Kossuth, UNC PP 333 silver coin/medal with certificate
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et
Kossuthfalva (Hungarian: [ˈlɒjoʃ ˈkoʃut], archaically English: Louis Kossuth; 19
September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman,
lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and Governor-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49.
With the help of his talent in oratory in
political debates and public speeches, Kossuth emerged from a poor gentry
family into regent-president of Kingdom of Hungary. As the influential
contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of Kossuth: "Among the orators, patriots,
statesmen, exiles, he has, living or dead, no superior.”
Kossuth's powerful English and American
speeches so impressed and touched the famous contemporary American orator Daniel Webster, that he
wrote a book about Kossuth's life. He was widely honoured during his
lifetime, including in Great Britain and the United States, as a freedom fighter and
bellwether of democracy in Europe. Kossuth's bronze bust can be found in
the United States Capitol with the inscription: Father of Hungarian
Democracy, Hungarian Statesman, Freedom Fighter, 1848–1849.
Other honors and memorials in
the United States:
Kossuth County, Iowa, is
named in Kossuth's honor. A statue of the freedom fighter stands in front of
the county Court House in Algona, Iowa, the county seat. The small towns of Kossuth, Ohio, Kossuth, Mississippi,
and Kossuth, Wisconsin, as
well as a populated area within the town of Bolivar, New York are named in honor of Kossuth.
A bust of Kossuth sits in
the United States Capitol in
Washington, D.C., which also boasts a Hungarian-American cultural center called
Kossuth House (owned and operated by the Hungarian
Reformed Federation of America). A statue of Kossuth stands in New
York City on Riverside Drive near the Columbia University campus.
Other statues of Kossuth are sprinkled throughout the US, including in University Circle in Cleveland, Ohio. There is a Kossuth Park at the intersection
of East 121st Street and East Shaker Boulevard, just west of Shaker Square, in Cleveland. In the Bronx, New York, Brooklyn, New York, Utica, New York, Ronkonkoma, New
York, Bohemia, New York, Newark, New Jersey, Bridgeport, Connecticut,
Haledon, New Jersey, Wharton, New Jersey, Lafayette, Indiana,
and Columbus, Ohio there are
streets named in honor of Kossuth. There is also a neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio known as the Kossuth Colony.
The bust of Kossuth that
was added to the United States Capitol in
1990 is presently displayed in that building's "Freedom Foyer"
alongside busts of Václav Havel and Winston Churchill.
Coin details:
Quality: PP
Fineness: 33.3 % silver (333/1000)
Total weight: 15.0 gram (approx. 0.53 troy oz)
Diameter: 35.0 mm (approx. 0.91 inch)
Issue limit: 5500 pcs
Issue date: 2008
Issue place: Budapest, Hungary
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