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50 Zlotych
| Issuer | Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Zlotys (50 Złotych) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK POLSKI PIĘĆDZIESIĄT ZŁOTYCH WARSZAWA dn. 28 Lutego 1919 roku. Dyrekcja Banku Polskiego. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in a rose-violet guilloche underprint of dense geometric and floral lacework filling the entire field. "PIĘĆDZIESIĄT ZŁOTYCH" is inscribed in large letters across the top, with denomination numeral "50" in circular medallions at upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right corners. A central text panel carries the legal tender clause in Polish, below which an anti-counterfeiting warning is printed in smaller type. At lower right, a circular intaglio vignette contains the Polish crowned white eagle — the national arms — set against a finely engraved background, flanked by sheaves of wheat and cornucopia motifs. |
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Bank Polski's 1919 series was issued in the immediate aftermath of Poland regaining independence, with the country's financial infrastructure essentially being built from scratch. Having no domestic printing capacity equal to the task, the provisional government contracted the Banque de France to produce the notes in Paris — a practical arrangement that also lent the new currency a degree of credibility it could not yet earn domestically.
The watermark is the only security measure on P#56, a thin defence by any standard, and counterfeiting of the early Polish emission notes was a genuine problem during the inflationary years that followed.