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50 000 Zlotych
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Third Zloty (1949-1994) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed intaglio view of the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, rendered in brown with its characteristic Neoclassical columned façade, arched ground-floor arcade, and domed roof visible against a teal guilloche background. The issuer name 'NARODOWY BANK POLSKI' runs across the top in large brown lettering, with the legal tender clause stacked in a column to the left and the cursive 'NBP' monogram to the right. The denomination '50000' appears in teal at lower left and upper right, with the full value in words 'PIĘĆDZIESIĄT TYSIĘCY ZŁOTYCH' along the bottom edge. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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By 1993, Polish inflation had been running at catastrophic rates for years — the 50,000 złoty note, once an enormous sum, had been reduced to covering little more than a bus fare. The denomination was part of a final, bloated chapter of the old złoty system before the 1995 redenomination slashed four zeros from the currency entirely, replacing 10,000 old złotych with a single new złoty.
PWPW has printed Polish banknotes continuously since its Warsaw founding in 1919, surviving the Nazi occupation — during which the facility was seized — and resuming state production after 1945. P#159 belongs to the last generation of notes the redenomination rendered obsolete overnight.