10 Zlotys 100 Years of Olympic Games

Poland's 1995 Olympic centenary issue coincided with the Atlanta Games cycle, released the year before the 1996 centennial Games themselves. The timing placed it among dozens of commemorative programs rushed out by mints worldwide between 1994 and 1996, making the broader series crowded. Mennica Polska had resumed independent operation only in 1990 after decades as a state instrument, and the Olympic program represented one of its earlier exercises in marketing silver commemoratives to foreign collector markets — a revenue stream that would define much of the mint's output through the late 1990s.