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5 Zlotys The Central Industrial District
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Weight | 6.54 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed architectural rendering of industrial buildings associated with the Central Industrial District (Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy), a major pre-war Polish industrial development project initiated in the late 1930s. The bimetallic design places the building complex prominently across the aluminium bronze centre, featuring sawtooth factory rooflines, a tall chimney stack, and modernist facades rendered in fine relief. The legend CENTRALNY OKRĘG PRZEMYSŁOWY arcs across the upper portion of the copper-nickel outer ring. The engraver's initials appear at the lower right of the inner disc. |
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The Central Industrial District — COP in Polish — was a massive state-led industrialization project launched in 1936 under Deputy Prime Minister Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, designed to build Poland's military-industrial capacity in the geographic triangle between the Vistula, San, and Dunajec rivers. The location was chosen deliberately: far enough inland to complicate any German or Soviet bombing campaign. Steelworks, ammunition factories, and an aircraft engine plant at Rzeszów were all operational within three years.
The project ran from 1936 to 1939 — the invasion ended it before full completion, but not before fundamentally reshaping central Poland's industrial base.