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5 Zlotys March Constitution
| Issuer | Poland |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA 1925 |
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Issued to mark the fourth anniversary of the March Constitution of 1921 — Poland's first democratic constitution following the restoration of independence after 123 years of partition — this coin was authorized under the government of Władysław Grabski, the same finance minister whose currency reform had only just stabilized the złoty after catastrophic post-war inflation. The timing was deliberate: Grabski needed the constitution to mean something in hard currency as well as on paper.
Less than a year after issue, Piłsudski's May Coup of 1926 effectively suspended the constitution's authority. Coins struck to honor it outlasted the document they commemorated.