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300 000 Zlotys St. Maksymilian Kolbe
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A draped bust of Saint Maksymilian Kolbe facing slightly left is depicted in the center of the field, portrayed wearing his Franciscan habit with a distinctively wide collar, and wearing round-framed spectacles. The legend ŚW. MAKSYMILIAN KOLBE curves along the left periphery in vertical orientation, while the commemorative inscription 100-LECIE URODZIN with the dates 1894-1994 appears along the upper right portion of the field. The portrait is rendered in a realistic, medallic style against a polished mirror proof field. |
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Maksymilian Kolbe was a Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at Auschwitz in August 1941 — a Polish Army sergeant named Franciszek Gajowniczek, who had cried out about his wife and children when selected for the starvation bunker. Kolbe survived the bunker for two weeks before the SS administered a lethal phenol injection. He was canonized by John Paul II in 1982, a ceremony notable for Gajowniczek's presence in St. Peter's Square, still alive at 82.
The 300,000 złoty denomination reflects Poland's early 1990s redenomination transition period, just before the 1995 introduction of the new złoty at a 10,000:1 ratio.