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20 000 Zlotys Sigismund I the Old (bust)
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#272 |
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| Reverse description | A frontal draped bust of Zygmunt I Stary (Sigismund I the Old), King of Poland, wearing a royal crown and a fur-trimmed robe with a prominent decorative pendant or order hanging at the chest. Stylized laurel or feathered branches flank the bust to the upper left and right. The regnal dates 1506 and 1548 appear in the upper field to either side of the bust. The legend ZYGMUNT I STARY is inscribed along the lower rim in large letters. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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This coin is one of several issued by the NBP in the early 1990s revisiting the Royal Series concept — a politically loaded project given that communist-era Polish coinage had largely avoided celebrating kings. Sigismund I ruled from 1506 to 1548 and presided over what Poles call the Złoty Wiek, the Golden Age, a period of genuine cultural and economic expansion anchored by the 1526 monetary reform that standardized the zloty across the Crown. That reform makes him a pointed choice for a denomination bearing the zloty name.
The 20,000-zloty face value reflects the terminal hyperinflation of the late communist period, still denominated before the 1995 redenomination stripped four zeros from the currency.