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2000 Zlotys Duke Mieszko I, Trial Strike
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Currency | Third Zloty (1949-1994) |
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| Obverse description | The Polish state eagle displayed with wings spread, rendered in bold relief at the center of the field. The date 1979 is divided on either side of the eagle, with the mint mark appearing below. The denomination ZŁ 2000 ZŁ is inscribed in large characters along the lower portion of the field. The circular legend POLSKA RZECZPOSPOLITA LUDOWA runs around the periphery, interrupted by raised dots as dividers. |
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| Obverse lettering | • POLSKA • RZECZPOSPOLITA • LUDOWA • 19 79 mw ZŁ 2000 ZŁ |
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This trial strike was produced as part of Poland's internal evaluation process for a proposed 2000 Złotych commemorative honoring Mieszko I, the 10th-century Piast ruler whose baptism in 966 AD is conventionally treated as the founding moment of the Polish state. The 1979 date places it within the late Gierek era, when the communist government selectively rehabilitated medieval Polish national figures — Mieszko among them — as a way of anchoring socialist Poland within a longer historical continuum that predated any ideological inconvenience.
Bronze trial strikes of this type were produced in extremely small quantities for approval purposes and rarely entered any distribution channel.