2 Zlotys Wielkopolskie Voivodeship

This piece belongs to Poland's long-running Nordic Gold 2-złoty collector series, which the NBP launched in 1995 as a deliberate strategy to produce low-denomination coins with genuine collectibility — issued at face value but never intended to circulate. Wielkopolska, the region commemorated here, carries particular weight in Polish national identity: it was the cradle of the Piast dynasty and the site of the 1918–1919 Wielkopolska Uprising, one of the few successful armed uprisings in Polish history, which wrested the region from German control before the Treaty of Versailles formalized the transfer.