Krzemionki Opatowskie [20]

Krzemionki Opatowskie

Subject: Monuments of Material Culture in Poland
Face value: 20 pln
Alloy: 925/1000 Ag
Diameter: 38.61 mm
Weight: 28.28 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 45000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: striped flint
Date of issue: 2012-07-18
Issue price: 170 pln
At the bottom, an actual piece of striped flint, polished and set in a roundel, against a stylised fragment of an extraction chamber in a Neolithic flint mine. On the left, a stylised image of an antler pick. At the bottom, in a semicircle, the inscription: KRZEMIONKI OPATOWSKIE.

Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
On the left, an image of the Eagle, established as the state emblem of the Republic of Poland against a stylised part of an extraction chamber in a Neolithic flint mine. Above the Eagle, the notation of the year of issue: 2012. To the right of the Eagle, the inscription: 20 ZŁ. At the bottom, an inscription: RZECZPOSPOLITA/ POLSKA [THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND]. The Mint mark, MW, below the Eagle, on the right.

Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska

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Krzemionki Opatowskie

The prehistoric flint mine of Krzemionki Opatowskie is one of the most important historic sites in Poland, and without doubt the foremost Neolithic monument in Central Europe. It reveals a high level of technological achievement among the human communities that inhabited the Vistula Basin 5000 years ago, before the discovery of bronze and iron production. The landscape of the basin is altered by the visible traces of Neolithic mining activity.

Krzemionki Opatowskie is located in the north eastern foreland of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (the Holy Cross Mountains), near the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. The area’s Jurassic limestone bedrock, hidden under later superficial deposits, contains nodules of striped flint, one of the most beautiful ...

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