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100 Złotych - Rybek Tilapia Nilowa 2015
| Issuer | Rybek Local Currency Issuer (Poland) |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | TILAPIA NILOWA Ag 999 Oreochromis niloticus |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rybek is one of Poland's handful of functioning local complementary currencies, circulated within a small community exchange network rather than through any state banking channel. This piece — denominated in a unit that cannot be spent at a supermarket — occupies an odd corner of numismatic taxonomy: legally a medal in most jurisdictions, treated as currency within its issuing community, and collected internationally as neither.
The Nile tilapia framing is almost certainly a nod to the fish's role in alternative and sustainable food economy discussions prominent in Polish ecological circles around 2014–2015.