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100 Zlotys Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | · RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA · mw 1990 (Translation: Republic of Poland MW 1990) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Trial strikes (próby) issued by Mennica Polska in 1990 occupy an awkward historical moment: Poland was shedding the communist monetary system but the denominational structure had not yet been formally replaced. The 100-złoty face value was already economically meaningless by this point — hyperinflation had so thoroughly eroded purchasing power that the denomination would effectively disappear in the 1995 redenomination, when 10,000 old złotych became a single new złoty.
Nickel trials from this transitional period were produced in very small numbers for archival and approval purposes, rarely leaving the mint through official channels.