The obverse shows an image of Joseph Conrad (Konrad Korzeniowski) with his facsimile signature. On the reverse side there is an image of the barge 'Otago' with a reflection in water, which changes depending on the angle of light. Joseph Conrad was born on 3 December 1857. His father was a poet who was sent to Siberia for his activities in preparation for the Reds' party. Conrad's mother decided to go to exile with her husband, taking her child with her. The misery of her life in exile killed her first and then her husband. At the age of eight, Konrad Korzeniowski was taken into the care of his uncle, Tadeusz Bobrowski. As a son of exiles and a subject of the Tsar, he threatened him with immediate conscription to the Russian army for many years. This threat made him apply for British citizenship so hard afterwards.  17-year-old Konrad Korzeniowski went to Marseille and there he enlisted on a merchant ship as a simple sailor. His career in the French navy was interrupted by the refusal to renew his French passport, which met the future writer in 1878. Korzeniowski moved to the British navy, which was undergoing a period of dynamic development and recruited seafarers from various parts of the world. At sea, Korzeniowski spent a total of 17 years and took advantage of the British Navy captain's patent. He sailed mainly on sailing ships. He visited many countries, especially often sailed around Indonesia. His first novel "Almayer's Madness" was published in 1895, at the age of 38. Soon afterwards, he married an English woman and settled down not far from London deciding to make a living from writing. Over the next 30 years he wrote 14 novels and eight volumes of short stories. All of them are somehow connected with the sea. Conrad became famous as a writer who described the era of romantic sailing ships, which was already passing into the past.