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100 000 Zlotys Tobruk 1941
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued in 1991 to mark the 50th anniversary of the siege of Tobruk, this coin commemorates the prolonged North African campaign in which Polish soldiers — many from the Carpathian Rifle Brigade — held the port against Rommel's forces for 242 days alongside Australian and British troops. The Poles at Tobruk were largely evacuated from the fallen France and reconstituted in the Middle East; their presence in the Western Desert was a direct consequence of the 1939 collapse.
The .750 silver specification is characteristic of Polish commemorative output in the early post-communist transition period, when the Mint was balancing prestige coinage with constrained material budgets.