Oil and Gas Industry [200]

    
    
    
    

150th Anniversary of Oil and Gas Industry's Origin

Coin reverse 200 pln 150th Anniversary of Oil and Gas Industry's Origin
Coin obverse 200 pln 150th Anniversary of Oil and Gas Industry's Origin
Subject: no
Face value: 200 pln
Alloy: 900/1000 Au
Diameter: 27 mm
Weight: 15.5 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 2100 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2003-05-21
Issue price: 940 pln
On the left-hand side, a portrait of Ignacy üukasiewicz. On the right-hand side, a paraffin lamp and two glass items of laboratory equipment. Above, the date on which the first paraffin lamps were lit up in the hospital at Lwów: 31.VII.1853. Below, a semi-circumscription: IGNACY ŁUKASIEWICZ 1822-1882.

Designer: Roussanka Nowakowska
On the bottom right-hand side, an image of the Eagle as the national emblem of the Republic of Poland. On the top right-hand side and in centre, a stylised design showing oil drilling and refinery installations and a hand holding a beacon. On the left-hand side, an inscription: 150-LECIE / NARODZIN / PRZEMYSŁU / NAFTOWEGO / I GAZOWNICZEGO (150th Anniversary of the Birth of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry), and an inscription: 200 ZŁ. Below, the year of issue: 2003. Above, a semi-circumscription: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA. Under the Eagle's left talon, the Mint mark: m/w.

Designer: Roussanka Nowakowska

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150th Anniversary of Oil and Gas Industry's Origin

There have been many notable achievements in Polish history accomplished by famous people. One of these personalities is Ignacy Łukasiewicz, an inventor and an industrialist, a Polish patriot who contributed to the secret movement for the restoration of his country's independence, a social campaigner and a philanthropist. The year 2000 marked the 180th anniversary of his birth, and the 120th anniversary of his death.

The following two events involving Ignacy Łukasiewicz were of crucial importance in the global career of petroleum oil: At the turn of 1852 and 1853 Łukasiewicz and his colleague Jan Zeh obtained a distillate of the appropriate degree of purity from natural petroleum oil. On 2nd December they were granted a patent for it by the Austrian ...

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