200 Zlotys Juliusz Słowacki

Issued to mark the 190th anniversary of Słowacki's birth, this coin belongs to a long-running NBP series honoring Polish Romantic literary figures — a program with obvious resonance in a country where 19th-century literature functioned as cultural resistance under partition. Słowacki spent most of his adult life in exile, dying in Paris in 1849 without seeing the recognition that would come posthumously. His remains weren't repatriated to Kraków's Wawel Cathedral until 1927, nearly eight decades after his death, following a ceremonial procession that briefly united political factions otherwise at each other's throats in the early Second Republic.