50 Groszy CuNi, Trial Strike 50 without leaves German Occupation WW II

Bank Polski suspended normal coin production well before the German invasion of September 1939, but trial and pattern strikes from 1938 document the bank's planning for a revised coinage series that never entered circulation. This particular trial omits the flanking oak leaves found on the adopted design — a deliberate variant struck to evaluate compositional options rather than a production error. The P44.1 designation places it firmly in pattern territory, meaning it was never intended for release and surviving examples almost certainly came through institutional channels rather than circulation.