5 Zlotych Polskich - Aleksander I

The 5 Złotych Polskich series of 1829–1834 was struck at Warsaw under the constitutional Kingdom of Poland, the nominally autonomous state Alexander I had established at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. That arrangement collapsed violently with the November Uprising of 1830, and the subsequent Russian suppression brought the kingdom's distinct monetary system under direct pressure. Coins continued to be struck through the early 1830s even as Russian authorities dismantled Polish institutions, making the later dates in this run politically charged artifacts of a dying administrative order.

The Organic Statute of 1832 formally abolished the Polish constitution, ending the kingdom's autonomy. Issues bearing dates after 1830 were produced under increasingly Russian-controlled mint administration.