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200 Zlotys People's Republic
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The Polish crowned White Eagle (Orzeł Biały), the national coat of arms, displayed with wings spread and talons clasping, rendered within a square shield at centre field. The denomination '200' appears in large numerals below the shield, with the currency abbreviation 'ZŁ' beneath. The circular legend 'POLSKA RZECZPOSPOLITA LUDOWA' (Polish People's Republic) runs along the upper periphery, with the date '1974' at lower right and the Warsaw Mint mark 'MW' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | POLSKA · RZECZPOSPOLITA · LUDOWA · 1974 mw 200 ZŁ (Translation: Polish People`s Republic) |
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This issue belongs to the broader Polish commemorative silver program launched in the early 1970s under Edward Gierek's government, which used hard-currency coin sales abroad — primarily to Western collectors — as a modest mechanism for earning foreign exchange. The People's Republic was accumulating significant dollar-denominated debt during this period to finance industrial modernization, and numismatic exports were one small piece of that calculus.
The .625 fineness is notably lower than the .750 silver used in earlier Polish commemoratives, a quiet downgrade that went largely unremarked at the time.