Settlement in North America [100]

400 Years of Polish Settlement in North America

Subject: no
Face value: 100 pln
Alloy: 900/1000 Au
Diameter: 21 mm
Weight: 8 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 9500 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2008-12-17
Issue price: 856 pln

In the centre a stylized image of a wind rose. Between its arms, stylized images: on the left-hand side at the top ? a man smelting glass, below ? an artisan making barrels, on the right-hand side at the top - a man making potware, below ? a blacksmith at work. On the rim an inscription: 400. ROCZNICA POLSKIEGO OSADNICTWA W AMERYCE PÓŁNOCNEJ (400 years of Polish settlement in North America).

Designer: Roussanka Nowakowska

In the centre an image of the Eagle established as the State Emblem of the Republic of Poland against a stylized image of a wind rose. Above, the outline of fragments of the western coast of Europe and eastern coast of North America. Above, a semicircular inscription: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA (the Republic of Poland). Below, an inscription: 100 ZŁ. On the left-hand side, the notation of the year of issue: 2008. The Mint's mark under the Eagle's left leg: M/ W.

Designer: Roussanka Nowakowska

400 Years of Polish Settlement in North America
2008-12-17, National Bank of Poland

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In October 1608 soon after the establishment of the first English colony at the eastern coast of North America, Polish settlers reached the new continent as well. Thereby, they paved the way towards the multiethnic Virginia and in a longer perspective towards the multiethnic United States of America, a country established and populated by descendants of immigrants, including Poles, who have searched for their 'promised land' in America ever since. In 1606 king James I Stuart chartered the Virginia Company of London with the right to colonize and exploit the resources of the southern part of North America. On this basis the English started the establishment of their own colonies in the New World, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492, thus engaging in competition ...

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