Catalog
100 Zlotych
| Issuer | Kasa Pożyczkowa Narodowa (National Loan Treasury) |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Size | 170 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on rose-red hand-made paper within a repeating arrow-point decorative border in dark ink, the note carries the letterpress title 'Bilet Skarbowy' (Treasury Bill) in copperplate script flanking a central vignette of the Polish royal coat of arms — a crowned eagle with crossed cannon barrels and anchors — with denomination panels '100' at left and 'STO' at right. The body bears a lengthy Polish-language legislative text citing the resolution of the Supreme National Council dated 8 June 1794, beneath which two large block control initials 'B' and 'S' appear, followed by two manuscript authorization signatures and a handwritten serial number. The overall composition is characteristic of the austere emergency-issue character of the Kościuszko Insurrection treasury bills. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Kasa Pożyczkowa Narodowa was established in August 1794 specifically to finance the Kościuszko Uprising — Poland's last major armed effort before the Third Partition extinguished the state entirely. These notes were emergency instruments, authorized under wartime conditions and backed by little more than the expectation of a victory that never came. The treasury itself ceased to function before the year was out.
Because the uprising collapsed in November 1794, the entire note issue was rendered worthless within months of printing. Surviving examples did not circulate long.