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Pursuing the cycle "Polish Cities", Polish Post put into circulation
two successive stamps on July 1st, which are presented:
1, 80 PLN - a Roman paten year 1193, linked with the personage of Mieszko Stary, now kept in the treasury of the basilica of Holy Mary Assumption - sanctuary of St. Joseph in Kalisz. On thhe background of the stamp there is to be seen the facade of the basilica. The oldest reference about Kalisz comes from the II century A.D. when Claudio Ptolemeo put down in his book "Epitome on Geography" the name "Kalisia". Thanks to this Kalisz got the honourable appellation of the oldest town in Poland. 2, 60 PLN - herma - reliquary of St. Sigizmunt, from the donation of
Kazimir the Big in year 1370 in the form of a bust, kept now in the church
of Holy Mary Assumtion in Plock. On the background of the stamp is to be
seen the general outline of the castle-cathedral on the Tum Hill. The early
stage of the town is closely linked with the period of formation of the
Polish state. The germ of Plock was the erected in the X century, on the
place of a pagan worship centre, on the same Tum Hill, an abode of a feudal
sovereign. A huge historical promotion of Plock, which created from this
town the most important next to Cracow centre of culture, took place during
the rule of Wladislaw Herman /1079 - 1102/, when Plock became the capital
of Poland.
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Original information and image from Polish
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