10 Zlotys 200th Anniversary of Warsaw Mint

The Warsaw Mint traces its origins to 1766, established under Stanisław August Poniatowski during a period when Poland was already hemorrhaging territory to its neighbors — the First Partition would follow just six years later. That the institution survived at all through subsequent partitions, occupations, and two world wars is the more remarkable fact this coin quietly marks. By 1966, the mint was operating under the Polish People's Republic, making this a communist-state commemoration of an institution founded by the last king of an independent Poland.