Poland. Collection “Great Poles Distinguished for Independence,” 24 pcs, National Treasury, Gold-plated medals
All medals: Brass plated with 24-carat Gold (999/1000), diameter 38,61 mm, issued between 2010 and 2016, Condition UNC, each medal comes with a certificate of authenticity, elegant wooden box (slightly scratched)
The collection includes 24 medals:
- Władysław Łokietek - restorer of the Kingdom of Poland,
- Sigismund I the Old - Renaissance king of Poland,
- Casimir Pulaski - hero of two continents,
- Józef Wybicki - author of the Polish national anthem,
- Jan Kiliński - hero of the Kościuszko Uprising,
- Władysław Sikorski - Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of the Government in Exile,
- Józef Chłopicki - general, dictator of the November Uprising,
- Wincenty Pol - outstanding Polish poet, geographer, and ethnographer,
- Tytus Chałubiński - doctor, naturalist, mountaineer,
- Joachim Lelewel - outstanding researcher and independence activist,
- Hugo Kołłątaj - political activist, reformer
- Mikołaj Rej - father of Polish literature,
- Jan Kochanowski - great Renaissance poet,
- Cyprian Kamil Norwid - last of the Polish Romantic poets,
- Eliza Orzeszkowa - greatest writer of the Positivism era,
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski - writer, journalist, historian, social and political activist,
- Julian Tuwim, poet, writer, author of vaudevilles and sketches
- Adam Asnyk - Polish poet and playwright,
- Mieczysław Karłowicz - outstanding composer,
- Jacek Malczewski - outstanding painter of Polish symbolism,
- Bolesław Leśmian - great poet of Young Poland,
- Wojciech Kossak - outstanding painter of battle scenes,
- Aleksander Gierymski - outstanding representative of Polish impressionism,
- Karol Szymanowski - one of the most outstanding Polish composers