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 Maciej Pasztor
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| General Description : | Henryk Dembiński - (January 16, 1791 – July 13, 1864) was a Polish engineer, traveler and general. In the Hungarian revolution of 1848 he was appointed the commanding officer of the Northern Army.After his successes he was soon promoted and Lajos Kossuth appointed him the Hungarian commander-in-chief. He was hampered by the jealousy of Artúr Görgey and after the defeat at the Battle of Kápolna, he resigned. After the Battle of Temesvár (where he was commander until the arrival of Józef Bem) and Kossuth's resignation, he fled to Turkey, where he (together with many other prominent Polish officers) entered the service of sultan Mahmud I Józef Zachariasz Bem (Hungarian: Bem József, Turkish: Murat Pasha; March 14, 1794, Tarnów – December 10, 1850, Aleppo) was a Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms. |
| Material | Gold |
| Face value | 30 złotych |
| Catalog code (Michel) | 498 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | 430 |
| Catalog code | Polish Stamps Catalog 451 |
| Series | Centenary of the revolution of 1848 |
| Print run | 4,368,420 |
| Issue date | 15/07/1948 |
| Designer | Stefan Żechowski |
| Paper type | white middel |
| Print technique | Rotogravure |
| Printed by | Drukarnia Narodowa w Krakowie |
| Perforation | 10¾ or 11 line |
| Height | 22.80 mm |
| Width | 30.50 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
