The National Bank of Poland has issued another coin from the "Great Actresses" series.

Gabriela Zapolska was an actress, director, theatre manager, writer and publicist. She was one of the most distinct figures in Polish culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the most outstanding Polish playwright of her era.

She drew on this experience in her later professional life. Her novels, short stories and plays were extremely popular, and her stage tetralogy comprising the dramas Żabusia (Froggy), Ich czworo (Four of Them), Skiz (Skiz) and Moralność pani Dulskiej (The Morality of Mrs Dulska) is part of the canon of Polish drama. It was these works that led to Zapolska being considered a feminist. Although she denied this herself, the treatment of social and female themes in her work is one of the most daring and penetrating in Polish literature.

The reverse features a stylised portrait of Gabriela Zapolska, while the obverse bears the outline of the auditorium of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków.