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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 |
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| Reverse lettering | PIĘĆ ZŁOTYCH PODRABIANIE I WSPÓŁDZIAŁANIE W ROZPOWSZECHNIANIU PODROBIONYCH BILETÓW ZDAWKOWYCH KARANE JEST CIĘŻKIEM WIĘZIENIEM. |
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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.