15,000 forint - 150th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Hungarian Chamber of Notaries

The Magyar Nemzeti Bank is issuing a silver collector with a face value of 15,000 forints and its non-ferrous metal version of 3,000 forints named ‘150 éves a magyar polgári közjegyzőség’ (150 Years of the Hungarian Chamber of Notaries) on 12 December 2024, to mark the anniversary of the establishment of the modern Chamber of Notaries in Hungary. The collector coin was designed by sculptor Balázs Pelcz. Notaries had been appointed by the Pope or the Emperor in Hungary from the end of the 13th century, and they had only been authorised to take action in religious matters. However, the origins of the office of the modern notaries date back to 1874, when the Parliament adopted the Act XXXV of 1874 on royal notaries under the judicial reform following the Compromise. Since then, as the embodiment of non-litigation jurisdiction the Chamber of Notaries has been available to the public, seeking justice, in the spirit of the motto ‘jog vita nélkül’ (justice without debate). Nationalisation in 1949 transformed the civil notary's office into a state office, but after the political transition, notarisation, based on self-government by chambers, was also created. As a crucial actor in today’s economic and social life, it is tasked with the duties of public authentication (fides publica) and the impartial execution of non-litigation jurisdiction (justitia).