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100 Zlotych
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Size | 170 × 91 mm |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette, enclosed within an octagonal guilloche frame, presents a rural harvest scene with a tractor working a field, rendered in intaglio against a warm yellow underprint. Sheaves of wheat are placed at the lower left and right corners as decorative elements, while the denomination '100' appears in oval cartouches at all four corners. The inscription 'STO ZŁOTYCH' runs across the top, and a panel at the lower centre carries the legend 'BILET NARODOWEGO BANKU POLSKIEGO JEST PRAWNYM ŚRODKIEM PŁATNICZYM W POLSCE'. |
| Reverse lettering | STO ZŁOTYCH 100 BILET NARODOWEGO BANKU POLSKIEGO JEST PRAWNYM ŚRODKIEM PŁATNICZYM W POLSCE |
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Printed domestically in Warsaw, this note was issued by the newly restructured Narodowy Bank Polski under the communist-backed Provisional Government of National Unity — a banking apparatus rebuilt almost from scratch after the wartime destruction of Polish financial institutions. The 1946 zloty series represented an attempt to impose monetary order on an economy still reeling from German occupation, Nazi-era forced currency regimes, and the Lublin Committee's own earlier emissions.
Warsaw printing at this date carried its own difficulties. The city had been systematically razed, and production infrastructure was severely compromised, which shows in the occasionally uneven impression quality known to affect this series.