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200 000 Zlotys Albertville 1992
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Third Zloty (1949-1994) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1992 ALBERTVILLE XVI ZIMOWE IGRZYSKA OLIMPIJSKIE E |
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Issued ahead of the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics, this coin is part of a broader Polish commemorative program that accelerated sharply in the late 1980s and early 1990s as Mennica Polska pivoted toward collector issues during the economic turbulence of post-communist transition. The face value of 200,000 złotych reflects the staggering inflation Poland endured in that period — by 1990, annual inflation had peaked near 600%. The denomination was not arbitrary; it was a snapshot of a currency in free fall before the 1995 redenomination wiped four zeros from the złoty entirely.