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200 000 Zlotys Stanislaw Staszic, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Polish state eagle displayed, crowned, with wings spread and talons outstretched, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The circular legend RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination ZŁ 200000 ZŁ inscribed along the lower periphery. The date 1992 appears in two parts flanking the lower body of the eagle. The design is bordered by an inner ring of small square raised pellets forming a decorative frame near the rim. |
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| Reverse description | Facing left truncated bust of Stanisław Staszic, Polish statesman and scholar (1755–1826), portrayed in civilian attire with a draped collar, set against a polished field. Flanking the bust on either side are two olive or laurel sprigs rising symmetrically from the lower field. To the right of the bust, the subject's birth and death years 1755–1826 are inscribed vertically, with the word PRÓBA (trial/proof) inscribed diagonally below. A facsimile signature of Stanisław Staszic appears across the lower portion of the field. |
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Staszic — geologist, philosopher, priest, and one of the more consequential Polish intellectuals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries — was honored with this trial strike during a period when Poland's post-communist monetary system was collapsing under hyperinflation. By 1992, denominations in the hundreds of thousands were becoming routine, a direct consequence of the economic shock therapy introduced after 1989. Trial strikes from Mennica Polska during this transitional period were produced in limited numbers to test dies and planchets before committing to full production runs, and many were never formally released for circulation.