Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Born into a Boston family of modest means, he had little formal education but went on to start a successful business in Philadelphia and grew wealthy. His printing company also printed USA-Pennsylvania banknotes from 1749-64.

Franklin Társulat (Franklin Company) was a Hungarian printer/publisher. Otto Wigand founded the predecessor company in Kassa (Košice) in 1816, then moved it to Pest in 1827. In 1832 Gusztáv Heckenast took over and in 1840, with the entry of Lajos Landerer, they published books under the name Landerer and Heckenast. In 1873 they changed the name to the Franklin Society Hungarian Literary Institute and Bookshop Rt.. The capital shares of the company was HUF 600,000 in 4000 registered shares of HUF 150. It was one of Hungary's most important publishers and printing houses until World War II.

From 1863 Gusztá Heckenast was the primary owner. For decades it was directed by prominent scholars and writers. The company was nationalized on March 25, 1948. In 1949 it merged with St. Stephen's Society, owned by Stephanaeum and continued under the name of Franklin Nyomda (Franklin Press). Their publishing activity was taken over in 1950 by the Publishers of the Literature. On December 31, 1992 it was renamed as Franklin Printing and Publishing Ltd.. Its activities include book and music publishing and printing services. Source: Horváth János - Wikipedia

The catalog number A.BUC-78.1 is from Magyar Szuksegpenz Katalogus 1723-1959 (Hungary Emergency Banknotes 1723-1959) by Adamovszky Istvan.