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50 Groszy
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Reference(s) | P#104 |
| Obverse description | Printed in magenta on plain paper, the obverse bears the bank name "NARODOWY BANK POLSKI" across the top, with the Polish coat of arms and the denomination "50 GROSZY" at centre. A legal anti-counterfeiting warning and the date 1944 appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in magenta, the reverse is dominated by the numeral and text denomination "50 GROSZY" set within interlocking guilloche patterns and geometric decorative borders, without further vignette or pictorial elements. |
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Poland's postwar communist administration needed currency before it had a functioning state, let alone a mint. These small-denomination notes were printed at Goznak's Moscow facilities in 1944 for the Polish Committee of National Liberation — the Soviet-backed provisional authority — and rushed into circulation ahead of the Red Army's westward advance. The arrangement said everything about who was actually in charge of Poland's reconstruction.
The 50 Groszy was part of a matched series of fractional notes, all Moscow-printed, that predated any meaningful Polish printing infrastructure. Goznak had produced currency for Soviet satellite arrangements before, and the production quality reflects that institutional confidence.