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100 000 Zlotys Pope John Paul II, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska), Warsaw, Poland (1766-date) |
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This piece belongs to a short-lived commemorative program issued in the years immediately following Poland's political transformation — the 1989 Round Table Agreement had ended communist rule, and the newly reconstituted Narodowy Bank Polski moved quickly to issue prestige coinage celebrating figures central to Polish national identity. John Paul II was an obvious choice: his 1979 visit to Poland is widely credited with galvanizing the Solidarity movement. Trial strikes for this series were produced in strictly limited numbers for internal approval and collector presentation, never intended for general release.