The National Bank of Hungary have launched (24th May) a new double-crown-sized silver coin which remembers one of the country’s most pivotal chapters in modern Hungarian history on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of this national event. From the 1st March 1867, the traditional Austrian Empire, which had existed since 1804, was transformed into a constitutional dual monarchy, officially as “The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Kingdom of Hungary or, the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen”—the empire-kingdom of Austria-Hungary