2 Zlotys 2nd Eagle Design

Poland's aluminum and brass coinage of the 1980s was produced under conditions of chronic metal shortages and industrial disruption — the same years Solidarity was suppressed, martial law was lifted, and the command economy lurched toward collapse. The brass composition here reflects ongoing material substitutions at the Mennica Państwowa in Warsaw. Mintages across this short run varied sharply year to year, driven less by monetary planning than by whatever alloy stock the mint could actually source.