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200 Zlotych Rok 2000
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a trimetallic composition clearly visible through contrasting gold and silver zones. At center, within the silver middle ring, an stylized globe or orbital motif symbolizing the dawn of the new millennium is depicted. The Polish state eagle (without crown, per republican convention) appears in the upper left field. The circular legend reads RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA along the lower periphery, with the denomination 200 ZŁ and mint mark MW flanking the design, and the year 2000 inscribed below the central motif. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Poland's trimetallic coinage program of the late 1990s pushed against the technical limits of what mint presses could reliably produce at the time — bonding three discrete metallic rings without micro-fracturing at the joins required tolerances that several European mints declined to attempt. The year 2000 issue was as much an engineering demonstration as a commemorative, commissioned partly to establish Mennica Polska's credentials as a precision manufacturer in the run-up to Poland's broader European integration ambitions.
Relatively few were struck, and the combination of gold content across two separate rings makes melt-value calculation genuinely nonlinear.