Historical coins and banknotes of Poland
{{See also|Polish złoty}}
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This is a list of historical coins and banknotes of Poland.
Before the 20th century
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colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| Coins (Kingdom of Poland) | ||
colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| Banknotes (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) | ||
4 zł | 300px | 300px |
colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| Banknotes (Duchy of Warsaw) | ||
colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| Coins (1815-1850) | ||
2 zł | 300px | |
5 zł | 300px | |
colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| Banknotes (1850-1917) |
20th-century and interwar
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colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| Banknotes (1917-1924) | ||
{{1/2}} mark | 300px | 300px |
10 marks | 300px | 300px |
50 marks | 300px | 300px |
100 marks | 300px | 300px |
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10 gr | 300px | 300px |
2 zł (1936) | 300px | 300px |
5 zł (1930) | 300px | 300px |
10 zł (1929) | 300px | 300px |
20 zł (1929) | 300px | 300px |
20 zł (1931) | 300px | 300px |
20 zł (1936) | 300px | 300px |
50 zł (1929) | 300px | 300px |
50 zł (1936) | 300px | 300px |
100 zł (1934) | 300px | 300px |
colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| Banknotes (1939-1944) | ||
1 zł (1940) | 300px | 300px |
1 zł (1941) | 300px | 300px |
2 zł (1941) | 300px | 300px |
5 zł (1940) | 300px | |
5 zł (1941) | 300px | 300px |
10 zł (1940) | 300px | 300px |
20 zł (1940) | 300px | 300px |
50 zł (1940) | 300px | 300px |
50 zł (1941) | 300px | 300px |
100 zł (1940) | 300px | 300px |
100 zł (1941) | 300px | 300px |
500 zł (1940) | 300px | 300px |
= Coins =
1924 - See [http://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/du/1924/s/45/D1924045000001.pdf Dziennik Ustaw 1924-045]
Post-WWII
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align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/poland-paper-money-20-zlotych-1947-issue.html] | 20 zł | 300px | 300px |
align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/poland-paper-money-100-zlotych-1947.html] | 100 zł | 300px | 300px |
align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-poland-paper-money-500-zlotych.html] | 500 zł | 300px | 300px |
align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-poland-paper-money-1000-zlotych.html] | 1000 zł | 300px | 300px |
1950-currency reform
=Series of 1948=
The banknotes of the series of 1948 were designed by Polish painter and decorative artist Wacław Borowski. The introduction of these notes was part of the currency reform of 1950,[http://numibyd.pl/art_005.html The 1950 currency reform, i.e. let's take people's money] so the banknotes had to be printed quickly and in secrecy; so printing works in Poland (PWPW), Czechoslovakia (STC), Hungary (Pénzjegynyomda), Sweden (Riksbankens Sedeltryckeri), and Canada (British American Bank Note Company Ltd.) were involved.
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!colspan="10"|Series of 1948 | |||||||
colspan="2"| Image | rowspan="2"| Value | rowspan="2"| Dimensions | colspan="2"| Description | colspan="4"| Date of | |||
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Obverse | Reverse | Obverse | Reverse | first printing | issue | withdrawal | lapse |
align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 84px
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 84px | 2 zł | 120 mm × 58 mm | Face value | The design of the (then) future NBP building at Warsaw Insurgents Square in Warsaw |rowspan="7"| 1 July 1948 |rowspan="7"| 30 October 1950 |rowspan="2"| 1 January 1960 |rowspan="2"| 30 June 1960 | |||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 99px
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 99px | 5 zł | 142 mm × 67 mm | Face value | Farmer plowing a field with a tractor | |||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 104px
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 104px | 10 zł | 148 mm × 70 mm | Portrait of a peasant (inspired by Mateusz Jóźwiak, the creator of cast printing matrices at PWPW) | Peasants loading sheaves to a ladder wagon. | 31 December 1965 | 30 June 1966 | |||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 112px
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 112px | 20 zł | 160 mm × 76 mm | Portrait of a woman in kerchief (nicknamed "Anielka"; the portrait was supposedly inspired by Helena Michalik (née Bujak), who was a friend of Wacław Borowski)[http://numibyd.pl/art_006.html Anielka - a mysterious worker from a banknote.][https://dziennikpolski24.pl/dziewczyna-z-banknotu/ar/3095240 Girl with a banknote] | 30 June 1977 | 31 December 1977 | |||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 115px
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 115px | 50 zł | 164 mm × 78 mm | Portrait of a fisherman | 30 June 1978 | 31 December 1978 | |||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 120px
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 120px | 100 zł | 172 mm × 82 mm | Portrait of a worker (a so-called "Pstrowski"; portrait inspired by Bronisław Tomaszewski, who was a driver at PWPW) | View of a factory with smoking chimneys (probably Łódź) | 30 June 1977 | 31 December 1977 | |||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 125px
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| 125px | 500 zł | 178 mm × 85 mm | Portrait of a miner in helmet | Underground mining scene | 31 December 1977 | 30 June 1978 | |||||||
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=Series of 1974=
The National Bank of Poland began to introduce banknotes with the faces of "Great Poles" and the series was first introduced on 16 December 1974 with the 500 Zloty note. As economical situations worsened, by the 1980s higher and higher denominations worsened and in 1989, the 20000 was adopted which was equvialent to half of a wage of that time(65,000 Zloty). By the end of 1989, a commemorative note was released into circulation, the 200,000 Zloty banknote which is rather a numismatical product(which still has a huge price tag even today) than an actual banknote meant for everyday payments/transactions. In 1990, as wages were regulated to the actual value of the currency, new higher denonimation notes were released such as the 500,000 Zloty note which was worth 50 Dollars and then it was devalued to 30 dollars when a new exchange rate was finalized to prevent hyperinflation. At the end of 1993, new reworked editions of banknotes(50.000,100.000,500.000,1.000.000 and 2.000.000 Zloty) were released which also erased the old Polish People's Republic name from the 50.000 and 100.000 Zloty banknotes in circulation. In 1994 they stopped printing old Zloty notes to later establish the Fourth Zloty by 1st January 1995. All of the banknotes together were withdrawn on 31st December 1996 and were no longer exchanged by 2010.
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! colspan="8" |1974 Series | ||||||
Image | Value | Dimensions | Colour | Obverse | Reverse | Printed
|Withdrawn |
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align="center" bgcolor="#000000" |139px 139px | 10 zł | rowspan="17" | 139 x 63 mm | Bluish green | Indication of value | 1982 | rowspan="17" |31 December 1996 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | | 20 zł | Multicoloured | Indication of value | 1982 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | | 50 zł | Green | 1975,1979,1982, 1986,1988 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-100-zloty-banknote-1975-ludwik-warynski.html]
| 100 zł | Red | "Proletaryat" (19th century Polish socialist party) | 1975,1976, 1979,1982,1986,1988 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-200-zloty-banknote-1988-jaroslaw-dabrowski.html]
| 200 zł | Violet | Monument to the Dead (of the Paris Commune) by Paul Moreau-Vauthier in the Père Lachaise Cemetery | 1976, 1979,1986,1988 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | | 500 zł | Brown | "Żywią i Bronią" (They feed and defend), flag of Polish soldiers in Kraków during the Kościuszko Uprising | 1974,1976,1979,1982 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | | 1000 zł | Blue | 1975,1979,1982 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | | 2000 zł | Brown | 1977,1979,1982 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-5000-zloty-banknote-1982-frederic-chopin.html]
| 5000 zł | Green | Polonaise notes | 1982,1986, 1988 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-10000-zloty-banknote-stanislaw-wyspianski.html]
| 10 000 zł | Green and violet | Kraków | 1987,1988 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-20000-zloty-banknote-1988-marie-sklodowska-curie.html]
| 20 000 zł | Orange | Nuclear reactor "Ewa" near Warsaw | 1989 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/poland-paper-money-50000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 50 000 zł | Brown | The Staszic Palace in Warsaw | 1989,1993 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-100000-zloty-banknote-1990-stanislaw-moniuszko.html]
| 100 000 zł | Blue | 1990,1993 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/poland-currency-200000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 200 000 zł | Brown | Warsaw | 1989 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/polish-banknotes-500000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 500 000 zł | Blue and brown | "Trilogy" | 1990,1993 | ||||||
align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/polish-banknotes-1000000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 1 000 000 zł | Light brown | Country landscape | 1991,1993 | ||||||
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| 2 000 000 zł | Multicoloured | The 1919 Coat of arms of Poland | 1992,1993 | ||||||
colspan="8" |These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimeter, a standard for world banknotes. |
A lot of these banknotes that circulated from 1974 to 1988 were printed in several years.
See also
References
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