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10 Zlotys Witold Lutosławski
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 14.14 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed portrait of composer and conductor Witold Lutosławski in three-quarter view, depicted in formal attire with one hand raised in a conducting gesture, conveying artistic authority and creative energy. Surrounding the figure, concentric arcs of musical stave notation radiate outward, merging abstraction with biographical reference in a dynamic design. The legend 'WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI' curves along the upper left arc of the coin in bold lettering. The birth and death years '1913 - 1994' are inscribed along the lower exergue. A small engraver's initial appears in the right field near the portrait. |
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Lutosławski spent much of the Stalinist period in Poland writing deliberately uncommercial work — café piano music, arrangements, pieces that drew no ideological attention. His serious compositional voice, suppressed throughout the early 1950s, re-emerged only after the post-1956 thaw. This coin was issued to mark the centenary of his birth in 1913.
The NBP's collector series honoring Polish composers has been issued in .925 silver since the early 2000s, with Lutosławski joining Penderecki and Szymanowski in a sequence tied loosely to significant birth or death anniversaries.