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50 Zlotys Jan III Sobieski
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | POLSKA RZECZPOSPOLITA LUDOWA 19 83 mw · ZŁ 50 ZŁ · (Translation: Polish People`s Republic) |
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| Mintage | 1983 MW - - 2,576,000 |
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Jan III Sobieski is remembered above all for commanding the relief force at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, where a combined Christian army broke the Ottoman siege and effectively ended Turkish expansion into central Europe. The Polish commemorative program of the early 1980s returned to him repeatedly — this 1983 issue appearing exactly three centuries after that engagement.
Struck under the Polish People's Republic, a communist state invoking a Catholic military hero to satisfy domestic nationalist sentiment while Soviet oversight remained firmly in place.