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1 Grosz Trial Strike Brass
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Weight | 1.3 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 1 GROSZ PRÓBA |
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Poland's 1949 coinage reform was a deliberate instrument of Stalinist economic consolidation, replacing the wartime and immediate postwar currency with a new series explicitly tied to the People's Republic. Trial strikes in brass for this denomination were part of broader material testing conducted before the aluminum composition was selected for production — the final circulating grosz coins emerged far lighter and cheaper to produce, suited to a command economy prioritizing industrial metal allocation over coin longevity.