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200 Zlotys Czesław Miłosz
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Weight | 15.5 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a three-quarter facing portrait bust of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czesław Miłosz in mature age, wearing a suit and tie, rendered in finely detailed relief against a mirror field. Behind the portrait, a stylised house outline with a window motif occupies the upper field, with a textured landscape frieze along the upper rim. To the lower left, the birth and death years 1911–2004 appear above the name CZESŁAW, followed by a facsimile of Miłosz's signature in relief. A small engraver's initial appears at the bottom of the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued the year after Miłosz's centenary, this coin commemorates a writer whose relationship with the Polish state was deeply complicated. He defected from the Polish People's Republic in 1951 while serving as a cultural attaché in Paris, and his works remained banned in Poland for decades. When he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, state censors faced the absurdity of suppressing news about a Polish laureate. His rehabilitation came gradually, accelerated by Solidarity, and by the time of his death in Kraków in 2004 he had become a figure the same state once vilified now claimed with pride.