Poland 2008-MW 100 zlotych Fr-230

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from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71504
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This specimen was lot 71504 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $360. The catalog description[1] noted, "POLAND. 100 Zlotych, 2008-MW. Warsaw Mint. PCGS PROOF-68 Deep Cameo. Commemorating the Siberian Exiles. Exceptionally lustrous and brilliant, with a great cameo contrast." The Siberian exiles were the hundreds of thousands of Poles deported by the Stalin regime during and after the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.

Recorded mintage: 12,000.

Specification: 8 g, 0.900 fine gold, 21 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Fr-230; KM-Y640.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.
  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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