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100 000 Zlotys Pope John Paul II, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Weight | 7.50 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bust-length effigy of Pope John Paul II is depicted in three-quarter view, head inclined in a devotional posture, wearing full pontifical vestments including the papal mitre and richly embroidered cope. Behind and to the right of the papal figure, an elaborate architectural and sculptural composition — referencing an ornate Gothic altarpiece or church portal with numerous figural reliefs — fills the background field. The legend JAN PAWEŁ II arcs along the upper left, while the word PRÓBA (trial) appears in the upper right field, identifying this piece as a pattern strike. |
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Trial strikes from Mennica Polska in this period were produced for internal approval purposes — submitted to issuing authorities before production authorization, then typically destroyed or retained by the mint. That this example survives in collector hands at all reflects the informal dispersal of proof and pattern material that occurred during Poland's turbulent transition from centralized state control to privatization in the early 1990s. The mint itself was in the process of corporatization throughout 1991.
The denomination — 100,000 złotych — reflects the inflationary environment preceding the 1995 redenomination, which lopped four zeros off the currency.