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1000 Zlotys
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Size | 182 × 97 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse in its brown-tone colour scheme and dense guilloche latticework, with NARODOWY and BANK POLSKIE inscribed along the upper and lower horizontal borders respectively. The central panel carries a large overprinted numeral 1000 in pale underprint, overlaid with the bold intaglio text TYSIĄC ZŁOTYCH flanked above and below by ZŁOTYCH in smaller type. Four circular medallions bearing the numeral 1000 occupy the corners, and the series letter and serial number are printed at upper right and lower right in the outer margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Edward Drożniak and Jan Stefan Hanemann and Karol Póstówka |
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Poland's postwar monetary reconstruction was chaotic. The communist-backed Provisional Government inherited a currency system wrecked by Nazi occupation scrip, clandestine Home Army financing, and multiple competing note issues — the 1946 series was an attempt to impose institutional normalcy on that wreckage. This 1000-złoty denomination was among the highest-value notes in the series, a necessary concession to severe inflation that had already eroded the practical usefulness of smaller denominations.
Polak's engraving work on this series is technically accomplished, and Borowski's designs were among the more considered efforts to establish a visual identity distinct from both the occupation period and the prewar republic. Three signature combinations appear across the series; the Drożniak-Hanemann-Póstówka combination is the most commonly encountered on this pick number.