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10 000 Zlotys Papacy, Silver Bullion Trial Strike
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Poland's communist government had an uneasy relationship with the Catholic Church throughout the 1980s, yet the National Bank of Poland produced a series of papal issues that were essentially hard-currency earners aimed at Western collectors rather than domestic circulation. This piece is a trial strike — a proof of concept submitted for approval that never advanced to an authorized mintage — making it a mint artifact rather than a coin in any commercial sense.
Fischer's Polish pattern catalog documents it under Po#P366, confirming its status outside the regular program. Survivors are overwhelmingly cabinet pieces from mint or state archives.