Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Zlotys Ignacy Łukasiewicz
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1983 MW - - 611,700 |
| Additional information |
Łukasiewicz, the 19th-century pharmacist who pioneered the kerosene lamp and drilled one of the world's first commercial oil wells in Bóbrka in 1854, was a recurring subject of Polish commemorative coinage during the communist period — partly for genuine historical merit, partly because industrial innovators fit neatly into the state's preferred narrative of Polish technical achievement. This 1983 issue was struck under martial law, declared by Jaruzelski in December 1981 and not formally lifted until July 1983, making the production window historically compressed.