Beware of Old Forints!
 

At some point during our stay in Budapest, we got an old 1,000 forint bill, in our change.

When we tried to use it to purchase an item, the clerk informed us it was "old money and no good".

If you receive change, make sure the 1,000 forint has a silver bar stripe on it or it is useless.

From my understanding, the 1,000 bill underwent a new design recently and, if your bills don't have the silver bar stripe, it is worthless.

Just a "heads up"!

Valarie

Hi V,

Sorry to hear that you get scammed.

How much is 1000 forints in real money?

((I))

3€ and 97ct :D

Thanks, L.

At least F didn't get badly ripped off.

((I))

By "real" money I assume you meant Euros.

We took some old Forints that my wife's parents had lying around & got the same reaction. We gave them away to relatives who remembered them well.

Ian

i am surprised the bank of hungary isn´t still accepting them, although no one else will.

We had a similar experience years back in Amsterdam, when we received an "expired" 5 guilder note. Someone said we could exchange it at the Netherlands central bank, but we just kept it as a colourful addition to our photo album.

The banks still accept those old 1,000 forint bills, at least as far as I know, but in the shops they will no longer accept them.

Recently they also stopped accepting the 1 and 2 forint coins (luckily), so if you have them, just leave them at home :)