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20 Zlotys Frédéric Chopin
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Size | 138 × 69 mm |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
| Protection description | Frédéric Chopin's portrait; embedded security thread |
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Issued to mark the bicentenary of Chopin's birth, this was a commemorative collector note rather than a circulating banknote — legal tender in theory, but released in sealed folders and almost never spent. The NBP produced it in a limited run, and the engraving by Przemysław Krajewski is worth examining closely: intaglio work of this precision on a domestically printed commemorative was something PWPW had been refining across several prestige issues in the 2000s.
Cotton substrate, standard thread, watermark — the security specification is modest for a collector piece, which reflects its intended audience rather than any production shortcut.