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100 Zlotys Henryk Sienkiewicz date on the right, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mennica Polska (Polish Mint) |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Composition | Nickel |
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| Reverse description | A right-facing bust portrait of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the celebrated Polish Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1846–1916), occupying the central field in high relief with finely detailed facial features including a trimmed beard and moustache. The name HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ is inscribed in a vertical arc along the left periphery, while the birth and death dates 1846–1916 run vertically along the right periphery. The word PRÓBA (trial/proof) appears incuse in small letters at mid-right in the field, identifying this as a pattern strike. The composition is restrained and classical in style, engraved by Stanisława Wątróbska-Frindt. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sienkiewicz had been dead for over sixty years when Poland began issuing coins in his honor, but the timing of this 1977 trial strike is political rather than commemorative — the People's Republic was selectively rehabilitating pre-war cultural figures whose nationalism could be reframed as patriotism. Trial pieces like this one document Mennica Polska's internal approval process; the date placement variant recorded separately under Fischer's classification suggests at least two die configurations were evaluated before the circulation type was finalized.