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50 Zlotych
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Watermark visible in the plain left margin area of the note. |
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This note belongs to the first postwar Polish issue, produced as the communist-backed Provisional Government was consolidating control and the prewar Bank of Poland had been effectively supplanted. The series was designed and printed under difficult conditions — Poland's own printing infrastructure had been devastated, and early postwar notes were produced with relatively modest security specifications, the single watermark being the primary anti-counterfeiting measure.
Circulation wear on surviving examples tends to concentrate along the horizontal fold lines, reflecting the folded-wallet habits common in the austerity years before the 1950 currency reform, which wiped out this series entirely at a punishing 100:3 conversion rate against the new złoty.