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200 Zlotys Władysław Łokietek, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Mennica Polska (Polish Mint) |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Value | 200 Zlotys (200 Złotych) (200 PLZ) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A facing bust of King Władysław I Łokietek (r. 1320–1333) is depicted in high relief, wearing an ornate royal crown with floral finials and displaying long curled hair and a beard, with elaborate royal robes visible at the shoulders. The legend 'WŁADYSŁAW I ŁOKIETEK' arcs along the upper left periphery, while the regnal dates '1320-1333' continue along the upper right. The word 'PRÓBA' (trial/pattern) appears in the right field, and the engraver's initials 'SWF' are incuse on the lower edge of the design, identifying the work of Stanisława Wątróbska-Frindt. |
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Trial strikes (próby) from Mennica Polska in the 1980s occupied an awkward institutional position — produced as internal proofs of proposed coinage during a period when the Polish People's Republic was hemorrhaging economic credibility, yet struck with the care of presentation pieces. Łokietek, the fourteenth-century king who reunified a fragmented Poland after over a century of Piast dynastic division, was a politically safe choice for state coinage: nationalist enough to satisfy public sentiment, medieval enough to avoid contemporary controversy.
The nickel composition distinguishes this from the silver circulation and collector issues of the same design. Fischer and ParM both catalog it under separate suffix designations precisely because the metal distinction matters for series completeness.