Issued to mark the remarkable growth of Gdynia, a city that barely existed before World War I and by the mid-1930s had become one of the busiest ports in the Baltic. Poland's loss of Danzig to League of Nations administration after Versailles left the new republic with no major port of its own, so the government built one from scratch on a small fishing village. Within fifteen years, Gdynia handled more tonnage than Danzig.
The coin was struck at the Warsaw Mint during a period of deliberate nationalist commemoration under the Sanacja government. Mintage was 1,000,000 pieces.
Issued to mark the remarkable growth of Gdynia, a city that barely existed before World War I and by the mid-1930s had become one of the busiest ports in the Baltic. Poland's loss of Danzig to League of Nations administration after Versailles left the new republic with no major port of its own, so the government built one from scratch on a small fishing village. Within fifteen years, Gdynia handled more tonnage than Danzig.
The coin was struck at the Warsaw Mint during a period of deliberate nationalist commemoration under the Sanacja government. Mintage was 1,000,000 pieces.