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200 000 Zlotys Pope John Paul II, Trial Strike
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Weight | 16.30 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | JAN PAWEŁ II PRÓBA |
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Trial strikes — or "próby" in Polish numismatic terminology — issued by the Narodowy Bank Polski occupy a peculiar administrative category: produced to test dies and planchets, they were never authorized for general release yet were distributed through official channels to collectors. This piece dates to the year of John Paul II's third pastoral visit to Poland, the first since the communist government's collapse, when the political circumstances surrounding papal imagery on Polish coinage had shifted entirely from the state suppression of the 1980s issues.
The Fischer Po#P411 reference places it within a documented proof of concept rather than a rejected design — the distinction matters for attribution.