4 Kórniki 2013

Weight

8.7 g

Diameter

27 mm

Thickness

NA

Material

Brass

Shape

Round

Edge Type

Plain

Technique

Milled

Front design

Portrait facing with dandelion flowers and floating seed behind

Back design

A building with two shields below

Year of Minting

2013

Location

Poland

Mint location

Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska), Warsaw, Poland (1766-date)

Mint mark

(MET)

Orientation

Medal alignment ↑↑

Inscriptions

Obverse: 90 rocznica urodzin WIESŁAWY SZYMBORSKIEJ ur. 2.07.1923r. HONOROWANY DO 30.09.2013 4 KURNIKI Reverse: KÓRNIK MET

Context

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.

Rarity

Ultra rare

Coin type

Local coins

In circulation

No

Demonetized

Yes

Marketplace listings

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