New Hungarian coin dedicated to Nobel laureate

Hungary has issued a copper-Nickel coin dedicated to the Nobel laureate John Harsanyi - an American economist of Hungarian origin. The nominal value of the new product in 2020 is 2000 forints. The coin was produced in a circulation of 5 thousand copies. The reverse shows staircases that go to infinity: one staircase is located in a triangle, the second one goes directly through the free space. The composition symbolizes a simplified version of infinite regression, which was proposed by the economist. On the obverse there is a portrait of the Nobel laureate, indicating his name and years of life (1920-2000).

John Harsanyi was born into a family of pharmacists, studied at the Lutheran gymnasium, and after graduating from the University of Budapest was sent to the labor battalion. In 1947, he received a doctorate in philosophy and taught sociology. In 1956, Harsanyi moved to the United States, where he began working on a dissertation on game theory, and a few years later received a doctorate in Economics from Stanford.