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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1908736, member: 39&quot;]The woman on those 2 to 10 zł coins is supposed to be &quot;Polonia&quot;, thus a personification of the country. The misattribution (Queen Jadwiga) has something to do with the designer Antoni Madeyski who had, a couple of years before, also designed Queen Jadwiga&#039;s sarcophagus (in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków). Apparently the two women look somewhat similar ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Madeyski" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Madeyski" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> page that shows both the sarcophagus and the coin. Another one is <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonia_(moneta)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonia_(moneta)" rel="nofollow">here</a>. (Both are in Polish though.) Some background info in English, not so much about the portrait though, can be found in this <a href="http://www.nbp.pl/en/banknoty/kolekcjonerskie/2006/2006_03___dzieje_zlotego_en.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nbp.pl/en/banknoty/kolekcjonerskie/2006/2006_03___dzieje_zlotego_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">brochure</a> (PDF) published by the Polish central bank when it issued it as a &quot;coin on a coin&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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