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10 Zlotys Presidential Plane Crash in Smolensk
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Thickness | 2.3 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed bust of Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland, facing slightly left, wearing glasses and a suit with tie, rendered with realistic portraiture in high relief against a mirror-polished field. A facsimile of his signature appears in the right field below the bust. The legend 'PREZES NBP SŁAWOMIR SKRZYPEK' arcs along the upper rim in Latin characters, and the birth and death years '1963–2010' are inscribed in the lower right field, commemorating his death in the Smolensk air disaster. |
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Issued to commemorate the April 2010 Tupolev Tu-154 crash near Smolensk, Russia, which killed all 96 passengers including President Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria, and a significant portion of Poland's senior military and civilian leadership traveling to the Katyń Forest massacre memorial ceremony. The political and psychological shock was compounded by the location — Katyń, where Soviet forces had executed roughly 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals in 1940, remained one of the most painfully charged sites in Polish national memory.
The National Bank issued this piece within the first year of the disaster, a notably rapid production cycle for a commemorative of this weight.