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20 Zlotys Juliusz Słowacki
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Printer | Polish Security Printing Works (Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych S.A.), Warsaw, Poland, Poland (1919-date) |
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| Reverse description | At left, an intaglio-engraved vignette of a fragment of the King Sigismund III Vasa Column at Castle Square in Warsaw; at center, a facsimile reproduction of an autograph excerpt from Słowacki's poem "Uspokojenie"; at the bottom, an architectural vignette of the St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Warsaw. |
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| Protection description | Watermark in the form of a portrait of Juliusz Słowacki; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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This note was issued to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Juliusz Słowacki, the Romantic poet whose remains were repatriated from Paris — where he died in 1849 — to Wawel Cathedral in Kraków in 1927, a state ceremony presided over by Józef Piłsudski. The repatriation itself was politically charged; Piłsudski reportedly declared that Słowacki deserved to be among kings.
P#180 is a commemorative collector issue rather than a circulation note, printed by PWPW on cotton paper with relatively modest security provisions for its type. Krajewski's engraving work on Polish commemoratives of this period is consistently among the finer examples of the intaglio craft still practiced domestically.