The Piast Horseman [10]

    
    
    
    

The Piast Horseman

Coin reverse 10 pln The Piast Horseman
Coin obverse 10 pln The Piast Horseman
Subject: History of the Polish Cavalry
Face value: 10 pln
Alloy: 925/1000 Ag
Dimensions: 22.4x32 mm
Weight: 14.14 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 62000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2006-11-22
Issue price: 66 pln
In the centre, a stylised image of an armoured mounted sergeant with a bared sword. In the background, the shadow of an armoured mounted sergeant holding a spear. On the top right, a diagonal inscription: JEŹDZIEC PIASTOWSKI (the Piast Horseman).

Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
An image of the Eagle established as the state Emblem of the Republic of Poland. Above the eagle, on the right, a semicircular inscription: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA (the Republic of Poland) and the notation of the year of issue: 2006. Below the eagle, on the right, an inscription: 10 ZŁ, on the left, images of two spearheads on poles. Under the Eagle's left leg, the mint's mark: m/w.

Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska

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The Piast Horseman

It is hard to determine the exact date when cavalry was first used in the Polish army. Already in the early days of Poland as a state mounted warriors were a significant part of its armed forces. An army of such warriors was indispensable for ruling on vast, forested territories. The horsemen of Polish rulers were famous even in distant lands: Ibrahim ibn Jacob, a Jewish merchant from the Arabic Spain, travelling throughout Europe at the beginning of the second half of the 10th century, already wrote with respect and admiration about the army of "the Northern king", referring to the Polish duke, Mieszko I. According to him, the duke of the Piast dynasty could rely on 3 thousand armoured warriors, of whom one hundred means as much as ten hundred other warriors. A part of ...

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