Witold Pilecki „Witold” [10]

Witold Pilecki „Witold”

Subject: The Enduring Soldiers Accursed by the Communists
Face value: 10 pln
Alloy: 925/1000 Ag
Diameter: 32 mm
Weight: 14.14 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 15000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: pad printing
Date of issue: 2017-09-28
Issue price: 120 pln
The reverse of the coin features the images of Witold Pilecki “Witold”, a military eagle, a whiteand- red-flag with the symbol of Fighting Poland and the inscription “They acted as they should”.

Designer: Urszula Walerzak
In the central part of the coin – image of the coat of arms eagle established as the national emblem of the Republic of Poland. Below the left talon of the eagle – mint mark: m/w. Along the rim – issuing country: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA (the Republic of Poland). In the bottom part of the coin – face value: 10 zł, year of issue: 2017 In the background – stylized decorative surface: broken prison bars.

Designer: Dobrochna Surajewska

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Witold Pilecki “Witold”

Witold Pilecki was born in an aristocratic family (coat of arms of Leliwa) in Olonets in Karelia on 13 May 1901. During his youth he was active in the Scout movement. In the years 1918-1921 he served in the Polish Army. He fought in the Polish-Soviet War and was twice awarded with the Cross of Valour. In the newly independent Poland he managed the Sukurcze estate near Lida (today in Belarus) which was recovered by the Pilecki family. At the initiative of Marshal Edward Śmigły- Rydz, Pilecki began to cooperate with the Polish counterintelligence, known as the “second department”.

He fought in the Polish defensive war in September 1939, after which he co-organized one of the first anti- German resistance groups: the Secret Polish Army, which ...

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