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2 Zlotys
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 2 Zlotys (2 Złote) |
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| Obverse lettering | NARODOWY BANK POLSKI DWA ZŁOTE WARSZAWA 15 MAJA 1946 ROKU PREZES NACZELNY DYREKTOR SKARBNIK (Translation: NATIONAL BANK OF POLAND / TWO ZLOTYS / WARSAW / 15 MAY 1946 / PRESIDENT / DIRECTOR GENERAL / TREASURER) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the reverse centres on a large scalloped guilloche rosette enclosing the numeral 2 above the denomination DWA ZŁOTE in white-reserve lettering. Symmetrical lace-pattern guilloche panels fill the left and right fields, and the issuer's name appears in a solid green band at the top, while a two-line legal tender inscription runs across the bottom margin. |
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This 1946 issue came out of an extraordinary logistical effort: the Polish Security Printing Works had been obliterated during the war, and reconstituting domestic banknote production in Warsaw — a city still largely rubble — was itself a political priority for the new communist-backed government. Getting the presses running again under Narodowy Bank Polski branding was a deliberate assertion of administrative continuity, however fragile that continuity actually was.
Ryszard Kleczewski designed several notes in this immediate postwar series. The watermark security, modest by prewar standards, reflects what was achievable given the state of the rebuilt facility in 1946.