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2 Zlotys
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown on a light guilloche underprint, with the Polish state eagle coat of arms centered at the top between the bank name arched in two parts. Large numeral "2" vignettes appear at left and right within ornate scroll borders, and a central text cartouche bears the denomination "DWA ZŁOTE" in bold letterpress. A small rectangular panel below contains a multi-line obligation text, with the date 1944 printed at the lower center flanked by two serial number groups. |
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| Obverse lettering | NARODOWY BANK POLSKI DWA ZŁOTE 2 1944 (Translation: National Bank of Poland Two Zlotys 1944) |
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The 1944 Polish zloty series, printed by Goznak in Moscow, was produced under the authority of the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation — the PKWN — which declared itself in Lublin in July 1944 as the Red Army pushed west through occupied Poland. These notes preceded any legitimate postwar Polish government by months and were deliberately designed to give the PKWN the appearance of administrative sovereignty before one had actually been established.
Goznak had printed Soviet state securities and currency since the tsarist period; contracting them for Polish notes was a political statement as much as a logistical one. The series entered circulation in liberated territories before the war even ended.