Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, the Young Poland movement poet and novelist who died in 1940 after years of progressive blindness and mental deterioration, is commemorated here as part of the NBP's long-running series honoring Polish literary figures. His Tatry poetry cycle effectively canonized the Tatra highlands as a national romantic space in the 1890s, at a time when Poland existed only as a cultural idea — partitioned, stateless, the language itself the primary vehicle of national identity.
The .900 fineness places this squarely in NBP's standard gold collector format for the series. Mintages for these literary issues typically run under 2,000 pieces.
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, the Young Poland movement poet and novelist who died in 1940 after years of progressive blindness and mental deterioration, is commemorated here as part of the NBP's long-running series honoring Polish literary figures. His Tatry poetry cycle effectively canonized the Tatra highlands as a national romantic space in the 1890s, at a time when Poland existed only as a cultural idea — partitioned, stateless, the language itself the primary vehicle of national identity.
The .900 fineness places this squarely in NBP's standard gold collector format for the series. Mintages for these literary issues typically run under 2,000 pieces.