100 Zlotys Trial Strike

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.