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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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| Value | 20 Zlotys (20 Złotych) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and tan tones over a yellow underprint, with a steel-engraved intaglio portrait of Frédéric Chopin in profile at centre. A vignette of his birthplace at Żelazowa Wola occupies the left portion of the note, while a fragment of the score of the Mazurka in B-flat Major (Op. 7) is rendered to the right, accompanied by a facsimile of the composer's signature below. The overall design integrates musical and biographical motifs in a refined commemorative composition. |
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| 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.