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5 Zlotys Freighter Waryński, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Poland |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Weight | 11.4 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device features the Polish People's Republic eagle displayed, with wings spread, rendered in a stylized Socialist Realist manner, facing right. The eagle appears without a crown, consistent with the communist-era Polish state emblem. The circular legend reads POLSKA • RZECZPOSPOLITA • LUDOWA • around the upper and lower periphery, with the date 1960 positioned in the lower field flanked by decorative dots. |
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| Reverse lettering | PRÓBA WARYŃSKI ZŁ5 |
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The Waryński freighter — named for Ludwik Waryński, founder of the first Polish Marxist party — was part of a broader postwar push by the Polish People's Republic to celebrate industrial and maritime development through coinage. Trial strikes of this type were produced in nickel rather than the aluminum-bronze of the circulation issue, almost certainly for presentation or approval purposes within the Mennica Polska. The Fischer and ParM catalogue references confirm this as a documented pattern variant rather than a contemporary counterfeit or private restrike.