''Fillér'' () was the name of various small-denomination

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s throughout Hungarian history. It was the subdivision of the

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and the Hungarian korona, the pengő, and the forint. The name derives from the

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word (four). Originally, it was the name of the four-

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coin. The fillér coins introduced in 1946 with the forint were worth 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 fillér. Due to significant inflation that took place after the fall of communism, the fillér coins were slowly getting removed coin by coin. The 2- and 5 fillér coins were removed in 1992, although they never had much value from their introduction, and they rarely circulated. The 10- and 20 fillér coins did circulate until the early '90s, and were removed in 1996. The last fillér coin, the 50 fillér (0.5 forint), was removed from circulation in 1999. However, the fillér continues to be used in calculations, for example, in the price of petrol (e.g. 479.9 forint/litre), or in the prices of telephone calls.

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