85 years of the Katyń Massacre [50]

    
    
    
    

85th Anniversary of the Katyń Massacre

Coin reverse 50 pln 85th Anniversary of the Katyń Massacre
Coin obverse 50 pln 85th Anniversary of the Katyń Massacre
Subject: no
Face value: 50 pln
Alloy: 999/1000 Ag
Diameter: 45 mm
Weight: 62.2 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 5000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: selective planting
Date of issue: 2025-04-08
Issue price: 1000 pln
Silhouettes of Polish Army officers and an officer of the State Police, against the background of a fragment of the “Katyń Epitaph” from the Katyń Museum in Warsaw, containing details of the victims of the Katyń massacre. Along the bottom rim, the semi-circular inscription: 85. ROCZNICA ZBRODNI KATYŃSKIEJ (85th Anniversary of the Katyń Massacre).

Designer: Robert Kotowicz
On the right, an image of the Polish Army military eagle, pattern 1919, with a broken wing, excavated from the death pits in Kharkiv. On the left, a reproduction of a line from a postcard sent by the family to one of the prisoners, that reads: Czekam / na ciebie tatusiu / z upragnieniem (I am waiting with longing for you, daddy), ended with a full stop. On the left and on the right, shoulder marks belonging to an officer of the Silesian Province Police and an officer of the Polish Army. Below the shoulder mark on the left, the inscription: 50 ZŁ. At the bottom, the image of the Eagle established as the state emblem of the Republic of Poland; below the Eagle, on the right, the Mint mark: m / w. Along the bottom rim, the inscription: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA (Republic of Poland) 2025.

Designer: Robert Kotowicz

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85th Anniversary of the Katyń Massacre

After the Soviet Union's aggression against Poland on 17 September 1939, approximately 250 thousand soldiers of the Polish Army and Border Protection Corps, officers of the State Police, Silesian Voivodeship Police, Prison Guard, Border Guard and all other uniformed formations were taken prisoner. Prisons in the Eastern Borderlands, occupied by the USSR, soon also filled with thousands of civilians. From among the prisoners of war and civilian captives, the NKVD selected more than 20,000 people, who were placed in special NKVD camps in Kozelsk, Starobilsk and Ostashkov, as well as prisons in Western Belarus and Western Ukraine. They were representatives of the military, political, intellectual and cultural elites of the Second Polish Republic.

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