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10 Zlotys Tadeusz Kościuszko head, Trial Strike
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Value | 10 Zlotys (10 Złotych) (10 PLZ) |
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| Obverse description | The Polish state eagle displayed facing, with wings spread, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The eagle is uncrowned, consistent with the People's Republic of Poland heraldic tradition, and stands with talons gripping. The circular legend reads 'POLSKA • RZECZPOSPOLITA • LUDOWA •' around the periphery, with the date '1958' inscribed at the base, flanked by dot stops. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 1958 Polish pattern series was produced during a period when the National Bank was quietly testing designs for a major circulation coinage reform that would not fully materialize until the early 1960s. This trial strike of the Kościuszko 10 Złotych — catalogued under both Fischer and Parchimowicz — represents one of several competing compositional and design proposals evaluated that year, most of which were rejected before reaching the public.
Kościuszko remained an ideologically safe choice for the communist-era Polish state: a military hero whose biography could be framed around anti-tsarist resistance rather than western democratic idealism, despite the latter being the more accurate characterization of his political philosophy.