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10 Zlotys Konrad Korzeniowski/Joseph Conrad
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | At upper left, a portrait effigy of Józef Konrad Korzeniowski (Joseph Conrad) faces left in a three-quarter view, rendered in a stylized artistic manner. The Polish state eagle appears in the lower right field. The legend around the design includes the subject's Polish birth name and pen name, the dates of his birth and death, the state title, denomination, date, and mint mark. |
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| Obverse lettering | KONRAD KORZENIOWSKI 1857-1924 Joseph Conrad RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA 10 Zł 2007 mw (Translation: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 Joseph Conrad Republic of Poland 10 Złotych 2007 MW) |
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Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in Berdychiv in 1857 — then Russian-controlled Ukraine — to a family of Polish gentry whose nationalist activities landed his father in Tsarist exile. He left Poland at seventeen, barely spoke English until his twenties, and went on to write Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim in his third language. The NBP issued this coin in the year marking the 150th anniversary of his birth.
The hologram element on a .925 silver piece of this size was technically ambitious for its time in the NBP collector series.