JPII 100th birth anniversary [500]

    
    
    
    

100th Anniversary of the Birth of Saint John Paul II

Coin reverse 500 pln 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Saint John Paul II
Coin obverse 500 pln 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Saint John Paul II
Subject: Pope John Paul II
Face value: 500 pln
Alloy: 999.9/1000 Au
Dimensions: 40x40 mm
Weight: 62.2 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 966 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2020-05-14
Issue price: 18500 pln
Saint John Paul II praying at the baptismal font in the Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wadowice.

Designer: Urszula Walerzak
A fragment of Jerzy Kossak’s painting “Miracle on the Vistula”.

Designer: Urszula Walerzak

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100th Anniversary of the Birth of Saint John Paul II

Karol Józef Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II, was born on 18 May 1920 in Wadowice. Those were particularly hard times in Polish history. Shortly after regaining independence in 1918, Poland faced the threat of losing it again as a result of the Bolsheviks’ invasion. Referring to these circumstances, John Paul II said: “You know that I was born in May 1920, at the time when the Bolsheviks marched towards Warsaw. And that is why since my birth I have owed a great debt to those who at that time took up the fight against the invader and won, paying with their lives.”

His youth was marked by World War II (1939-1945) and the German occupation of the country. He wrote this: “I was spared a lot of suffering in this huge and terrible theatre of the Second ...

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