A precedent-setting international partnership is being set up between the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) and Mennica Polska, the Polish Mint, to grade the mint’s new commemorative coins as well as to establish a submission center at the mint in Warsaw, Poland for the convenience of local collectors and dealers to submit coins for PCGS certification.

The announcement of the new partnership was jointly made by PCGS and the Polish Mint at the World Money Fair in Berlin, Germany on February 5, 2009.

"This new program will facilitate the submissions of Polish and Eastern European collectors and dealers for both vintage and modern world coins.  It will offer them a central, secured and efficient point of submission with the highly-reputable Mennica Polska where they can send and receive back the coins they entrust to PCGS for grading," said Don Willis, PCGS President.

Jacek Jakobczak, Polish Trade and Marketing Deputy Director, stated: "Mennica Polska is looking forward to partnering with PCGS in Eastern Europe for the submission of new commemorative modern issues and acting as a submission center for modern and vintage coins for our collectors and dealers." Read the rest of this entry »

The National Bank of Poland (NBP) has launched a new two-zloty coin for collectors commemorating the Polish town of Bielsko-Biala. The commemorative is the final coin released within the ‘Historic Polish Towns’ collector coin series. Thirty-one previous historic town coins have been released.

The two-zloty commemorative coin has a mintage limit of 1.1 million and is composed of Nordic Gold, which is mostly copper.

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The National Bank of Poland (NBP) has released three historical and exceptionally well designed coins commemorating the 65th anniversary of the 1943 Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The commemorative coins include new two-zlotys minted in Nordic Gold (mostly copper) with a mintage level of 1.75 million, proof silver 20-zlotys with a limited mintage of 14,500 and proof gold 200-zlotys with a mintage of 12,000 coins.

The two zloty coin features barbed wire in the shape of the Star of David and the face of a girl wearing a beret on the reverse.

The 20-zlotys coins depict the Star of David against a brick wall backdrop on the reverse and a tree, and the other side will show loose bricks and flames surrounding the Polish eagle.

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