Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Coin encased within plastic square container. Obverse, the head of Janusz Korczak and around it is written, "Janusz Korczak 1878 - 1942." Reverse, Polish eagle in the center and written around it "Polska Rzeczposopolita Ludowa (Polish People's Republic) 100 zl., 1978."
- Date
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issue:
1978
- Geography
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issue:
Warsaw (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joram Kagan
- Contributor
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Issuer:
Polish State Mint
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Commemorative coins (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Coin encased within plastic square container. Obverse, the head of Janusz Korczak and around it is written, "Janusz Korczak 1878 - 1942." Reverse, Polish eagle in the center and written around it "Polska Rzeczposopolita Ludowa (Polish People's Republic) 100 zl., 1978."
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.260 inches (3.2 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal, plastic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The coin was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Joram Kagan.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-29 12:34:14
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn6993
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Also in Joram Kagan collection
The collection includes a Jewish police badge from Sosnowiec, Poland and a 100 zloty silver coin from Poland honoring Janusz Korczak.
Jewish police badge from Sosnowiec, Poland
Object
Badge; Jewish Police from Sosnowiec, brass hexagonal plate, painted blue around the edges, in the middle engraved Star of David, and "Alt Sosn" with letters, "O,R,S," on the arms of the star, engravings painted blue; around the edge etched, in German, "Ordnungsdienst," and in Polish, "Sluzba Porzadkowa"(Order Police).
