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2 Zlotys Solidarność
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 2 Zlotys (2 Złote) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylised outline map of Europe occupies the right portion of the field, with Poland's territory indicated. In the left and lower field, the distinctive Solidarność logotype is inscribed in its characteristic hand-lettered script, overlapping a large diagonal cross motif symbolising the trade union movement. Two portrait figures — rendered in low relief — appear in the lower right, representing the human dimension of the Solidarity movement. The commemorative dates '1980-2000' are inscribed below the union's name, marking the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Solidarność. |
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Issued to mark the twentieth anniversary of Solidarity's founding, this coin commemorates the August 1980 Gdańsk Agreements that forced the Communist government to recognize independent trade unions for the first time in the Eastern Bloc. The movement's subsequent suppression under martial law in December 1981 — and its eventual role in the negotiated collapse of Polish communism by 1989 — gave the anniversary particular political weight when NBP commissioned the piece.
Nordic gold, the copper-aluminum-zinc-tin alloy developed by Scandinavian manufacturers in the 1990s, was by 2000 already the standard for Polish Y-series bimetallic and base commemoratives, chosen largely for its resistance to corrosion in circulation.