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5 Zlotys Polonia, Trial Strike B
| Issuer | Poland |
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| Year | 1933 |
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| Value | 5 Zlotys (5 Złotych) |
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| Obverse description | The Polish state eagle displayed at center, crowned, with wings spread and talons clutching, set within a plain field. The date 1933 appears in the exergue below the eagle. The denomination 2 ZŁOTE is inscribed in large stylized characters flanking the lower portion of the eagle, and the circular legend RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA runs along the upper periphery in Latin script. The design closely follows that of the circulating 2 Złote coinage of the period, used here as the obverse die for this trial strike. |
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| Mintage | 1933 - - 100 |
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The "Polonia" 5 Złotych was part of an ambitious interwar reform of Polish coinage under the Second Republic, with multiple compositional trials struck before the silver standard issue was finalized. Trial Strike B in bronze was never intended for circulation — it exists as a production test, almost certainly struck in very limited numbers at the Warsaw Mint. The silver production version saw a mintage of roughly 1,100,000 pieces in 1933 and 1934 combined, making the bronze trial a genuinely rare document of the minting decision process.