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5 Zlotych
| Issuer | Kasa Główna Królestwa Polskiego (Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland) |
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| Year | 1824 |
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| Value | 5 Zlotys (5 Złotych) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted treasury note with an ornate border of guilloche work and corner rosettes. The Imperial Russian double-headed eagle vignette is centered at the top, below which the serial number appears twice flanking the main text panel bearing the denomination inscription in decorative script. The date 1824 appears at the left margin, with two manuscript signatures of Royal Commissioners (Kommissarz Krolewski) below the body text, which sets out the legal authority for issuance. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper stock, characteristic of Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland issues of this period. |
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The Kasa Główna Królestwa Polskiego was itself a constitutional anomaly — the Kingdom of Poland existed under Russian imperial control after 1815, nominally autonomous but fiscally subordinate. These notes circulated in a polity that had a separate currency, a separate budget, and its own treasury, yet was governed by a tsar. That arrangement collapsed after the November Uprising of 1830, and much of the paper money infrastructure was subsequently absorbed into the Russian system.
The 1824 date places this note squarely in the quieter interregnum years — after the Napoleonic turbulence but before the revolt. Surviving examples are rare; the post-uprising monetary reorganization was thorough.