Dytiatyn [20]

Dytiatyn

Subject: The Polish Thermopylae
Face value: 20 pln
Alloy: 925/1000 Ag
Diameter: 38.61 mm
Weight: 28.28 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 10000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2021-09-08
Issue price: 220 pln
The reverse of the coin depicts a fragment of the reproduction of Jerzy Kossak’s painting “The Battle of Dytiatyn 16 September 1920”.

Designer: Urszula Walerzak
The obverse of all the coins of the “The Polish Thermopylae” series features Athena, the goddess of just war and wisdom.

Designer: Urszula Walerzak

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Dytiatyn

On 16 September 1920, at Dytiatyn, west of Podhajce, a small Polish unit fought a battle with two brigades of the Red Army. During the Polish offensive in Galicia, the 8th Infantry Division commanded by Col. Stanisław Burhardt-Bukacki received orders to capture Podhajce. In the morning of 16 September, two companies of the 3rd Battalion of the 13th Infantry Regiment, led by Captain Jan Gabryś, with the 4th Battery of the 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment and a platoon of the 7th Battery of the 8th Field Artillery Regiment, reached Dytiatyn. Just outside that village the soldiers encountered the columns of the 8th Red Cossack Division and the 123rd Rifle Brigade. The Poles moved on to the offensive, dispersed the leading enemy unit and took up positions on Hill 385. There ...

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