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1 Zloty German occupation
| Issuer | Bank Emisyjny w Polsce |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 1 Zloty (1 Złoty) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark olive-green intaglio on plain paper. A central guilloche medallion carries the large numeral "1", flanked symmetrically by two oval underprint rosettes each inscribed "ZŁ". Decorative engine-turned borders frame the entire field, with the bank name along the top and the denomination text along the bottom, and corner numerals "1" at each angle. |
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| Protection description | Geometric design of dark and light rectangles. |
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The Bank Emisyjny w Polsce was itself a German creation — established in April 1940 specifically to displace the Bank Polski and issue a new currency for the occupied General Government territory. Its notes were not Polish money in any meaningful sense; they were an instrument of economic control, used in part to extract resources and suppress the pre-war financial infrastructure.
Sowiński's involvement is notable. He was one of the few Polish designers retained — or compelled to work — under the occupation administration. Printing in Kraków rather than Berlin was a deliberate signal of permanence.
The 1 Złoty denomination was the workhorse of daily transactions and consequently among the most heavily circulated values in the series, with condition a consistent problem.