Catalog
5 Dolarów
| Issuer | Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A. |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BON TOWAROWY Upoważniający do pobrania towarów eksportu wewnętrznego wartości $5$ PIĘCIU DOLARÓW BON TOWAROWY MOŻE BYĆ ZREALIZOWANY JEDYNIE W DRODZE POBRANI TOWARÓW EKSPORTU WEWNĘTRZNEGO W JEDNYM Z PUNKTÓW SPRZEDAŻY BANKU POLSKA KASA OPIEKI S.A. Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA WARSZAWA, DNIA 1 STYCZNIA 1960 R. |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a faint overall guilloche underprint in pale tan. A central oval medallion carries the PKO monogram in light brown, set within a lightly printed geometric rosette pattern. A vertical band of faint text runs through the centre field, and a rectangular control or validation stamp impression appears in the lower right corner. |
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Bank Polska Kasa Opieki — PKO — was a state-controlled savings institution used by the Polish government as a mechanism for extracting hard currency from its own citizens. These dollar-denominated notes were not foreign exchange in any meaningful sense; they were issued to Poles who received dollar remittances from abroad, forcing conversion into PKO certificates that could only be spent at Pewex hard-currency shops. The system simultaneously captured Western money and denied citizens direct access to it.
Printing in Warsaw rather than abroad was a deliberate political choice — by the late 1950s, the PZPR had no appetite for sending currency contracts to Western printers.