| Location |
Poland
|
|---|---|
| Period |
Third Republic (1989-date)
|
| Type | Local coins |
| Year | 2013 |
| Composition | Brass |
| Weight | 8.7 g |
| Diameter | 27 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | 30 September 2013 |
| Number | N# 366251 |
Portrait facing with dandelion flowers and floating seed behind
Script: Latin
Lettering:
90 rocznica
urodzin
WIESŁAWY SZYMBORSKIEJ ur. 2.07.1923r.
HONOROWANY DO 30.09.2013
4 KURNIKI
Translation: 90th anniversary birthday Wiesławy Szymborskiej
A building with two shields below
Script: Latin
Lettering:
KÓRNIK
MET
Plain
| Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska), Warsaw, Poland (1766-date) |
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik), she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors', though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry" ("Niektórzy lubią poezję"), that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.
Szymborska was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality". She became better known internationally as a result. Her work has been translated into many European languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian and Chinese.
Kórnik (German: Kurnik, 1939-45 Burgstadt) is a town with about 7,600 inhabitants (2018), located in western Poland, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south-east of the city of Poznań. It is one of the major tourist attractions of the Wielkopolska region and the Greater Poland Voivodeship because of the historical castle and arboretum, which is amongst the oldest and richest collections of trees and shrubs in Poland.
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
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| 2013 | 5 000 | ||||||||||||||
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