2009 Poland 10zl Silver Proof Coin "Baczynski"

• Mint: Polish Mint
• Denomination: 10 Zloty
• Quality: Proof
• Issue limit: 100,000 pcs.
• Alloy: 92.5% Sterling silver partially plated plated with 99.9% fine gold
• Diameter: 32.00 mm
• Weight: 14.14 grams
• Design: Roussanka Nowakowska
• Box/Capsule: No/Yes
• Certificate: No

Additional Information

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The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was a heroic and tragic 63-day struggle by the Home Army (a Polish resistance group) to liberate Warszaw from Nazi occupation, at the time Allied troops were breaking through the Normandy defenses and the Red Army was standing at the line of the Vistula River.

During World War II a lot of young poets manifested their talents in occupied Warsaw, even though they knew they were facing death. The most brilliant ones were Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński and Tadeusz Gajcy.

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, who used the penname Jan Bugaj, was born in 1921. In 1942 he became a student at the underground University of Warsaw and co-editor of the underground literary monthly "Droga" (The Road). In 1943 he joined an armed resistance group rooted in the scouting movement and subordinate to the Home Army. He graduated from the secret Infantry Non-Commissioned Officer School “Agricola” and left it with the title of officer cadet in the rank of senior rifleman. Surprised by the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising and unable to make it back to his platoon, he joined the unit of “Leszek” (Lesław Kossowski) fighting in the area of Teatralny Square. Baczyński was killed on August 4, 1944 in Blank’s Palace.

Baczyński’s poems, referring to the romantic tradition, are a record of accelerated maturity, tantalizing choices and moral dilemmas faced by the poet.