On 2nd September 2005, the National Bank of Poland launched a new series of 2 zloty coins entitled Historical Towns in Poland and struck in Nordic Gold. thirty two coins will be put into circulation by the National Bank of Poland until April 2008 in the series commemorating towns with a history of over 500 years which have significantly contributed to the developnemt of particular regions and statehood in Poland. the choice of towns was made by a team of historicans appointed by the board of the National Bank of Poland and headed by Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz. (source NBP)

This publication, dedicated to the historical coins of Cieszyn, was publisched to accompany the special issue of a coin bearing a view of Cieszyn's oldest historic building - the Ronanescqe Rotunda of St. Nicholas Wenceslac.

Dr Bogdam Ficek
Mayor of Cieszyn
Author: janusz Spyra
Editor: Renata Karpińska
Photographs: Renata Karpińska, Dominik Dubiel
Reproductions: Renata Karpińska
Source of ilustrations:

    Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, Cieszyn,
    L. Wyczółkowski District Museum, Bydgoszcz, Private coin collections
    F. Friedensburg, "Die schlesischen Münzen des Mittelalters", Breslau 1931 oraz F. Friedensburg, H. Seger, "Schlesiens Münzen und Medaillen der Neueren Zeit" Breslau 1901;
    Lazerus Ercker "Aula SubterraneaDomina Dominantium Subita Subditorum", Frankfurt am M., 1703 from the collection of the Main Library of the Uniwersity of Science and Technology, Cracov)
    "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des Métries", Paris 1751 - 1772 (from the collection of the Cieszyn Historical Library)