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200 000 Zlotys Sigismund I the Old (half length)
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At center, the crowned Polish eagle with wings displayed, its breast bearing a shield, rendered in high relief against a mirror-field proof surface. The date 1994 appears in the left field, flanking the eagle, with the mint mark MW below. The denomination ZŁ 200000 ZŁ is inscribed along the lower portion of the field. The legend RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA arcs along the upper periphery, with a beaded border encircling the entire design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This piece belongs to Poland's early 1990s commemorative program, which used newly minted silver coins partly as a vehicle for reasserting national historical identity after decades of communist rule that had systematically suppressed dynastic iconography. Sigismund I, who reigned from 1506 to 1548, presided over what Poles call the "Golden Age" — a period of genuine cultural and political expansion during which Kraków briefly ranked among Europe's most sophisticated royal courts.
The denomination itself, 200,000 złotych, reflects the grotesque inflation Poland was still unwinding following the communist collapse; the redenomination that replaced 10,000 old złotych with one new złoty came just one year later, in 1995.