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1.000 Złotych
| Uitgever | Bank Emisyjny w Polsce |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1941 |
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| Waarde | 1.000 Złotych |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central cartouche carries the denomination inscription TYSIĄC ZŁOTYCH in large letterpress type above the issuer name BANK EMISYJNY W POLSCE, with the place and date of issue KRAKÓW 1.SIERPNIA 1941 R. below. A vignette at the right depicts a portrait of a nobleman or historical figure in period dress and a feathered hat, set within an oval frame. The four corners each bear the numeral 1000, and the borders are filled with intricate guilloche latticework and geometric ornamental bands. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | A large central vignette occupies most of the face, presenting a detailed engraved view of Wawel Castle in Kraków as seen from the riverbank, with towers and Renaissance architecture rendered with fine intaglio line work. The issuer name BANK EMISYJNY W POLSCE appears in a panel across the top, and the denomination TYSIĄC ZŁOTYCH is inscribed at the base of the central frame. Elaborate guilloche borders with oval medallions and geometric ornaments frame the composition on all sides, with the numeral 1000 repeated in the left and right panels. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Bank Emisyjny w Polsce was not a Polish institution in any meaningful sense — it was a German-controlled issuing authority established in April 1940 to administer currency in the General Government, the occupied Polish territory not incorporated directly into the Reich. Notes issued under this authority were the only legal tender in that zone, deliberately severed from the pre-war złoty system to prevent Poles from drawing on reserves held by the Polish government-in-exile.
Printing in Kraków, under German occupation, was itself a political act — placing production on occupied soil rather than routing it through German state printers helped maintain the fiction of a separate administered territory. The 1941 date places this note squarely in the period of heaviest wartime economic exploitation, when forced requisitioning and price controls were driving severe inflation against which this denomination offered little real protection.
P#103A distinguishes the note from later signature varieties in the same series.