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5 Zlotys
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Printer | Polish Security Printing Works (Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych S.A.), Warsaw, Poland, Poland (1919-date) |
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| Reverse description | Steel-blue letterpress print composed entirely of geometric guilloche ornament. The bank name NARODOWY BANK POLSKI runs across the top within a fine lathe-work frieze. Two large scallop-edged guilloche medallions bearing the numeral 5 occupy the left and right panels, while a central ornamental rosette carries the inscription PIĘĆ ZŁOTYCH. At the foot of the central panel, a two-line legal tender clause in Polish letterpress type completes the design, all enclosed within a multi-rule geometric border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Poland's postwar monetary reconstruction moved fast. This note was issued under the communist-aligned provisional government as part of a sweeping currency reform designed to absorb the wartime glut of German-era occupation zlotys and underground Polish emissions. The reform itself, enacted in late 1944 and extended through 1946, imposed strict exchange limits that effectively wiped out larger private savings — a feature, not a flaw, from the new government's perspective.
Printed in Warsaw at PWPW, which had resumed operations after catastrophic wartime destruction, 12.175 million examples entered circulation. Kleczewski was among the designers brought in to rebuild the visual grammar of Polish paper money from scratch.