200 000 Zlotys Ladislaus III Jagiellon

Władysław III, crowned King of Poland at age ten in 1434, died at Varna in 1444 leading a crusading army against Ottoman forces — his body never recovered from the battlefield. The 1992 issue is part of a long-running NBP series commemorating Polish monarchs, produced during the immediate post-communist transition when Poland was simultaneously redenominating its currency and rebuilding state institutions. The hyperinflationary zloty of that period meant 200,000 was a face value barely worth minting in silver on economic grounds alone.