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10 Zlotys 700th Anniversary of Warsaw - Nike, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Currency | Third Zloty (1949-1994) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic, modernist figure of Nike, the winged goddess of victory, depicted in a dramatically outstretched reclining pose, her right arm raised aloft holding a sword pointed upward, rendered in bold sculptural relief by engraver Wacław Kowalik. The inscription VII WIEKÓW WARSZAWY (Seven Centuries of Warsaw) appears in two lines across the lower field, commemorating the 700th anniversary of the city. The Roman numerals XIII-XX arc across the upper right field, denoting the centuries of Warsaw's existence. The word PRÓBA (trial strike) appears in the left field, confirming the pattern status of this piece. The engraver's initials WK are incused in the lower right field. |
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Warsaw's 700th anniversary in 1965 gave the Polish People's Republic an opportunity to project civic continuity through numismatic commemoration, even as the communist government remained deeply ambivalent about the city's pre-war identity. Trial strikes like this piece — struck in copper-nickel rather than the aluminum of the circulation issue — were produced for internal evaluation at Mennica Polska and rarely escaped official channels. The Fischer and ParM references both catalog this as a pattern variant, meaning survival numbers are genuinely small and provenance is seldom documented.