Work will be done by Strabag, and the contract cost 10 bilion Hungarian Forints. The bridge cost 63 billion forints (approx. The exchange rate reached 317 forints to one euro on 6 March. The Budapest City Council has paid 150 million forints for the project. Vladislaus married widowed Queen Beatrice in order to acquire her assets of 500,000 forints. The campaign was estimated to have cost 5.7bn forints (then US$21 million). The Emperor awarded the winner a brilliant ring worth 800 forints. Under the three-year plan, 40 million forints were voted for those works. During the next years 850,000 forints came together, a huge sum in those days. The 1,000 forints and higher denominations are protected by an interwoven holographic security strip. For this purpose, the archbishop Juraj Haulik gave a sum of 60,000 forints in 1860. An additional 2,000,000 forints came from the state, the filmmakers and the film studio. According to the aggregate statement of Grassalkovich, the costs were 402,679 forints.