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50 000 Zlotys Order of Military Valour
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#229 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1792-1992 200 LAT ORDERU VIRTUTI MILITARI AN |
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The Order of Military Valour — Virtuti Militari — is Poland's oldest and highest military decoration, established by Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1792 during the Polish-Russian War. Its appearance on a 1992 issue is pointed: that year marked the 200th anniversary of the order's founding, but also the first years of post-communist Poland reconstituting its national symbols after decades in which Virtuti Militari had been simultaneously honored and politically complicated by Soviet-era reinterpretation of wartime heroism.
The 50,000 złoty denomination reflects the hyperinflationary spiral Poland was still unwinding — a redenomination the following year would render the entire series obsolete at 10,000-to-1.