2011 AD., Poland, democratic Republic, Czesław Miłosz commemorative, Warsaw mint, 2 Złote, KM Y 785.

Poland, democratic Republic, Czesław Miłosz commemorative, engraver: Ewa Tyc-Karpinska (obverse) and Robert Kotowicz (reverse), Warsaw mint, 2011 AD.,
2 Złote (27 mm / 8,12 g), aluminium-bronze ("Nordic Gold" Cu 89%, Al 5%, Zn 5%, Sn 1%), 8,15 g theor. mint weight, mintage 1.000.000 , medal alignment ↑↑ (0°), plain edge with incuse lettering " * NBP " eight times (alternating upside down) (for Narodowy Bank Polski, "National Bank of Poland"),
Obv.: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA / mW / 20 - 11 / ZŁ 2 ZŁ , around Polish coat of arms: crowned eagle with spread wings (a white eagle, the national emblem of Poland), mint mark mW -monogram below r. claw.
Rev.: {Rk} / CZESŁAW / MIŁOSZ / 1911-2004 , bust of Czesław Miłosz facing half left, engraver´s {Rk} -monogram r. below bust.
KM Y 785 ; Parchimowicz 1196 .

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
2011 / mW / 800.000

Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. After serving as a cultural attaché for the Republic of Poland (1945–1951), he defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind (1953) is a classic of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Miłosz later became an American citizen and was awarded the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.