300 000 Zlotys Zamość

This coin commemorates the 370th anniversary of Zamość Academy, founded in 1594 by Jan Zamoyski, the powerful Chancellor and Grand Hetman of the Crown. Zamoyski's institution was one of the earliest academies in Poland modeled on Renaissance Italian universities, and its founding predated by decades most comparable establishments in Central Europe. The academy lost its university status under Tsarist pressure in 1784 and was closed entirely by 1831 following the November Uprising — a trajectory that made its commemoration politically loaded even in 1993, just four years into post-communist Poland's new sovereignty.

The denomination itself is a relic: 300,000 złotych reflected pre-redenomination values before the 1995 introduction of the "new złoty" at 10,000 old złotych to one.