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50 Zlotys 100th Anniversary of Poland's Wedding to the Baltic Sea
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 100-LECIE ZAŚLUBIN POLSKI Z BAŁTYKIEM |
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The "wedding to the sea" — *zaślubiny Polski z morzem* — refers to the ceremony performed by General Józef Haller on February 10, 1920, at Puck on the Gulf of Gdańsk, when he cast a ring into the Baltic to symbolize Poland's restored access to the coast after 148 years of partition. The act was partly theater, partly geopolitics: the Polish Corridor guaranteed by the Treaty of Versailles gave the newly reconstituted republic roughly 140 kilometers of coastline, though Danzig itself remained a Free City under League of Nations oversight, a compromise that satisfied almost no one.
The amber inclusion in the silver planchet is a direct material reference to the Baltic coast's most historically traded commodity.