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200 Zlotys Memorial Hospital Center, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska) |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The Polish People's Republic state emblem occupies the central field, depicting a crowned white eagle with spread wings, facing right, rendered in high relief. The date 1985 appears split across the lower field, flanking the eagle's body, with '19' to the left and '85' to the right. The denomination '200' is prominently inscribed in large numerals across the lower field, flanked by the currency abbreviations 'ZŁ' on each side. The circular legend 'POLSKA RZECZPOSPOLITA LUDOWA' runs along the upper periphery in Latin characters. The mint mark of the Mint of Poland (MW) appears below the eagle. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Trial strikes from Mennica Polska in the mid-1980s occupy an odd corner of Polish numismatics — produced for internal approval purposes under a command economy where the mint answered to the state, not the market. This particular piece documents the evaluation process for the Memorial Hospital Center issue, a coin commemorating the Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka, the children's health institute in Warsaw that had opened in 1977 after years of construction delays partly attributable to material shortages endemic to late-era Gierek government planning.
The nickel-plated iron substrate distinguishes this trial from silver circulation strikes, flagging it as a composition test rather than a die proof.