Poland 1934 5 zlotych Y-25

From CoinVarieties
Jump to navigation Jump to search
from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 73412
photo courtesy Stacks Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 73412 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "POLAND. 5 Zlotych, 1934. Warsaw Mint. PCGS MS-63 Gold Shield. A fully brilliant example of this early 20th century silver issue." This "Rifle Corps" commemorates the pseudo-sporting associations organized in Austrian Poland before World War One which later became the nucleus of the independent Polish army. One of the organizers, Józef Piłsudski, depicted on the obverse, became the president of the new republic.

Recorded mintage: 300,000 + 6,510,000 of the regular issue (Y-28).

Specification: 11 g, 0.750 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM Y-25.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The June 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

Link to:

Retrieved from "https://coinvarieties.com/index.php?title=Poland_1934_5_zlotych_Y-25&oldid=622956"