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100 Zlotych
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1944-1974 |
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| Reference(s) | P#117 |
| Obverse description | Red on blue underprint. The Polish eagle vignette occupies the upper left corner, with the numeral 100 at upper right. The bank title and denomination are rendered in large letterpress text across the centre of the note. Serial numbers appear in red at centre left and right, with mandatory acceptance and anti-counterfeiting legends in small text along the lower centre, above the series year 1944. |
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| Variants | P#117a - issued note P#117b - serial # Ax 778093 (modern reprint) |
| Comments |
Pick 117 spans an unusually long issue window for a Communist-era Polish note — the series was continuously reissued across three decades rather than replaced, a reflection of how stable (or frozen) NBP's printing program was under centralized economic planning. The design itself predates the full consolidation of the Polish People's Republic and carries aesthetic choices made under very different political pressures than those that governed its later printings.
Notes from the earlier dates in this series are considerably harder to find in any condition; heavy circulation use was the norm, and the 100 Złotych denomination was genuinely transactional, not a note that sat in wallets.