Token - 7 Łeb – 40th anniversary of the launch of the largest Polish rocket

In June 1970, a team from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw launched the IKS-1 sounding rocket from a site near Łeba on the Baltic coast, marking Poland's most significant indigenous rocketry achievement of the Cold War period. The launch site, chosen for its remoteness and flat coastal terrain, briefly made the small fishing town a footnote in Eastern Bloc space history. This token, issued by the municipality thirty-eight years later, commemorates that moment — a local government claiming a piece of national scientific history that larger institutions had largely forgotten.