The Austrian Occupation of Hungary (1849-1867)

Set Description
This is a type set covering the period between the failed Hungarian War of Independence (1848-1849) and the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, during which Hungary was an occupied territory of Austria. During this period, the three Hungarian mints struck Austrian types using mintmarks under the Austrian system as follows:
Austrian mintmark B = Hungarian mintmark KB (Kormocbanya)
Austrian mintmark E = Hungarian/Transylvanian mintmark GYF (Gyulafehervar)
Austrian mintmark G = Hungarian mintmark NB (Nagybanya)

The occupation period coinage can be further subdivided into two major sub-periods as follows:
The Gulden Period (1849-1856) - Pre-decimalized coinage
The Florin Period (1857-1867) - Decimalized coinage

Further, significant changes to the legends on the coinage occurred in both 1866 and 1867, making two sets of one-year types to reflect territories lost by the Austrian Empire. These events were contributing factors to the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867, during which Hungary regained much of its autonomy.

Set Goals
The goal of this collection is to acquire an uncirculated example of each type from a Hungarian branch mint (B, E, or G) with the best eye appeal possible. This is an extremely difficult set to complete, as while many of these types were issued with high mintage numbers from the Vienna mint, they were not plentifully struck from the Hungarian branch mints, and often were not struck for more than one year. In fact, more than half of the types in this set are one-year types, many of which are extremely challenging. Two of the types do not have any NGC certified examples in the census at atll.