10 Zlotys Polish Scouting

Issued to mark the centenary of Polish scouting, which traces its founding to 1910 when Andrzej Małkowski adapted Baden-Powell's movement for Polish conditions — at a time when Poland itself did not exist as a sovereign state, divided as it was between three empires. Polish scouting consequently developed a distinctly conspiratorial and patriotic character from the outset, and scouts played active roles in both World Wars and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

The pad-printed color application on this issue was among the earlier uses of that technique by the NBP mint program.