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2 Zlotys Zbigniew Herbert
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A left-facing portrait bust of Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert dominates the central field, rendered in a restrained, modernist low-relief style with fine linear detailing in the hair and clothing. The bust is set against a plain field subtly divided by a curved incuse arc framing the figure. The legend ZBIGNIEW HERBERT arcs along the upper right periphery in bold capital letters. The poet's birth and death years, 1924-1998, appear in the lower field below the portrait. A small engraver's initials monogram is visible at the lower left near the rim. |
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| Edge | Lettered, NBP repeated in alternating orientation |
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Herbert died in 1998, and this issue marks a decade since his death — part of NBP's long-running Nordic gold series honoring Polish cultural figures. His reputation rests heavily on the Cogito cycle and the character of Mr Cogito, a philosophical everyman Herbert used to examine moral resistance under totalitarianism. He spent years in internal exile of a kind, deliberately marginalized by communist authorities who found his refusal to conform professionally inconvenient. The series has issued hundreds of such two-zloty pieces since 1995, and secondary market premiums on cultural figures vary sharply by collector interest rather than mintage alone.