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5 Zlotych Bilet Zdawkowy
| Issuer | Ministerstwo Skarbu (Ministry of Treasury) |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Value | 5 Zlotys (5 Złotych) |
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| Obverse lettering | MINISTERSTWO SKARBU BILET ZDAWKOWY PIĘĆ ZŁOTYCH WARSZAWA, DNIA 1 MAJ 1925 ROKU MINISTER SKARBU DYREKTOR Departamentu Główki Pieniężnej |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by a central vignette of the Polish White Eagle with crown, set within an elaborate symmetrical guilloche framework of scrollwork and foliate ornaments. Large numeral '5' denominators appear in each corner, and the denomination legend is printed in bold capitals along the upper margin. A cautionary anti-counterfeiting inscription runs across the lower portion within a plain rectangular panel. |
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The Bilet Zdawkowy — literally "exchange ticket" — was a subsidiary currency instrument used by the Polish Treasury to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage in the mid-1920s. These were not banknotes in the strict sense; they were issued by the Ministry of Treasury rather than the central bank, reflecting Poland's still-fragmented monetary infrastructure in the years following the hyperinflationary crisis that had destroyed the earlier marka.
The Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych, established in Warsaw in 1919, was itself a product of the young republic's drive to control its own security printing. This note is among the earlier domestic productions of that facility.