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20 Zlotys
| Issuer | Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Printer | Państwowa Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych (PWPW) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by two large oval vignettes set side by side at centre, each enclosing an architectural engraving — the left vignette shows a domed neoclassical building and the right a colonnaded façade, both rendered in fine intaglio line work against a guilloche underprint in blue-grey. Between and below the vignettes, a spread eagle with wings raised serves as a centrepiece, flanked by the denomination numeral '20' in circular cartouches at each lateral margin. The lower register contains two text panels separated by the Polish state eagle coat of arms, one panel declaring the legal tender status of Bank Polski notes, the other citing the statutory penalties for counterfeiting. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK POLSKI DWADZIEŚCIA ZŁOTYCH 20 BILETY BANKU POLSKIEGO SĄ PRAWNYM ŚRODKIEM PŁATNICZYM W POLSCE PODRABIANIE-USIŁOWANIE PODRABIANIA-PUSZCZANIE W OBIEG LUB USIŁOWANIE PUSZCZANIA W OBIEG PODROBIONYCH BILETÓW BANKU POLSKIEGO PODLEGA KARZE CIĘŻKIEGO WIĘZIENIA |
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Bank Polski's 1929 zloty series marked a critical consolidation of the currency introduced five years earlier under the Grabski reforms, which had ended the catastrophic hyperinflation of the early 1920s. By 1929 the zloty had stabilized on a gold basis, and this note circulated during the brief period of relative monetary confidence before the Great Depression hit Poland particularly hard.
PWPW had been established in Warsaw in 1919 specifically to give the reconstituted Polish state sovereign control over its own securities production — printing here rather than abroad carried real political weight for a country that had only regained independence in 1918. P#70 remained in circulation well into the 1930s.