50 zł Henry Valois - Treasures of Stanislaw August

_{The unique series of gold and silver collector coins with the face values of 500 zloty and 50 zloty – TREASURES OF STANISŁAW AUGUST – replicates the famous 18th century  medallic series with the images of the kings of Poland, which was struck on the order of Stanisław August Poniatowski.}

_{The fourteenth coin in the series depicts Henry Valois. Born in 1551, he was the  fourth son of the French King Henry II and Catherine de Medici, and the last  French monarch of the Valois dynasty. He was the first elected monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Valois was elected in May 1573 following the heirless death of the last king from the Jagiellonian dynasty Sigismund II Augustus. He arrived in Poland at the end of January 1574, and his coronation took place at the Wawel cathedral on 21 February. After learning of the death of his brother Charles IX, who was the King of France, he left Poland on the night of 18-19 June 1574. He was crowned the King of France as Henry III in 1575 in Reims.}