08 November 2008

400th anniversary of the Poles' arrival in America FDC


Name: 400th anniversary of the Poles' arrival in America
Date of Issue: 30 September 2008
Denominations: PLN 3

The year 1620 is generally established as the foundation date of the first American colony, when the so called "founding fathers" stepped off their ship, the Mayflower, and started the Plymouth settlement. However attempts to settle the land had been made as early as 20 years before that. It isn't common knowledge, though, that some of the earliest settles in America were Poles!

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