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20 Zlotys Mikołaj Kopernik - ECU
| Uitgever | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Jaar | 1995 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | A three-quarter-length effigy of the Polish astronomer and economist Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus) is depicted facing slightly left, rendered in a Renaissance-inspired artistic style. In his raised left hand he holds a sphere inscribed 'ECU', referencing his monetary treatise, while his right hand rests upon an open book bearing the inset legend 'MONETE CUDENTE RATIO' in three lines, alluding to his 1526 treatise on coinage reform. Twelve five-pointed stars are arranged in an arc around the upper field, evoking the European motif. The engraver's initial 'R' appears at lower right near the book, and the subject's name 'MIKOŁAJ KOPERNIK' is inscribed along the lower rim as an exergual legend. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Issued the same year Poland formally applied for European Union membership, this coin's ECU denomination was a calculated diplomatic signal — the ECU being the EU's precursor accounting currency, never issued as circulating coinage by any member or candidate state. Poland adopted it here purely as a gesture of Western alignment, a common tactic among Central European nations maneuvering toward Brussels in the mid-1990s.
Kopernik's selection was not incidental. He had appeared on Polish currency repeatedly since the communist period, but pairing him with a European denomination reframed him as a continental intellectual rather than a national symbol.