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200 000 Zlotych General Okulicki, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Reference(s) | Fischer Po#P408, ParM#P638 |
| Obverse description | Centrally positioned, the crowned Polish white eagle with wings spread, displayed facing, rendered in high relief against a polished field. The date 1991 is divided across the lower field on either side of the eagle's tail feathers, with '19' to the left and '91' to the right. The denomination '200000' appears in large numerals along the lower rim, flanked by the złoty abbreviation 'ZŁ' on each side. The circular legend 'RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA' runs around the upper periphery, interrupted by dot separators, with the mint mark 'MW' appearing on the eagle's breast. |
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| Obverse lettering | · RZECZPOSPOLITA · POLSKA · 19 91 mw ZŁ 200000 ZŁ |
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General Leopold Okulicki commanded the Home Army's final months and was among the sixteen Polish Underground State leaders lured into Soviet-staged negotiations in March 1945, then arrested by the NKVD and tried in Moscow. He died in Soviet custody in December 1946 under circumstances that were never fully clarified. This trial piece was produced as Poland's communist government collapsed and sovereignty was being reconstructed — the rehabilitation of Home Army figures, long suppressed as enemies of the state, was politically impossible before 1989.
Trial strikes of this denomination in nickel are distinct from the issued cupro-nickel type and were not released for circulation.