Warsaw Uprising [2]
65th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising
Face value: 2 pln
Alloy: (CuAl5Zn5Sn1) NG
Diameter: 27 mm
Weight: 8.15 g
Finish: standard
Mintage: 1400000 pcs
On the edge: an inscription, NBP, repeated eight times, every second one inverted by 180 degrees, separated by stars
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2009-07-22
Issue price: 2 pln
Designer: Roussanka Nowakowska
Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
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Article linked with this coin
Contrary to the Latin proverb: inter arma silent Musae (the muses are
silent amongst war), during World War II a lot of young poets manifested their
outstanding talents in the occupied Warsaw. Born between 1921'1922, highly
gifted, they decided to fight, even though they knew they were facing death, like
'stones tossed onto the ramparts', as Słowacki, a great Polish romantic poet,
once put it. The most brilliant ones were Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński and Tadeusz
Gajcy. Both were born and died in Warsaw.
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, who used the penname of Jan Bugaj, was born in
1921. He graduated from the famous Stefan Batory Secondary School in Warsaw
in 1939 and intended to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942 he became
a student of Polish Philology ...