The obverse of all three coins is identical and features the crowned coat of arms of the Free City of Kraków (the city gates wide open, topped with three towers and featuring the Polish White Eagle in the centre of the gate) with the name of the city-state in Polish placed above the coat of arms in semi-circle: WOLNE MIASTO KRAKOW.Czesław Kamiński, Edmund Kopicki: Katalog monet polskich 1764-1864, KAW, Warszawa 1977, p. 142
