Catalog
50 Zlotys
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The eagle taken from the majestic seal of Casimir III the Great occupies the central field, rendered in intaglio with fine line engraving against a multicoloured guilloche underprint. Below the eagle, the royal insignia — an orb and a sceptre — are shown as decorative motifs. The denomination 50 appears in the corners, with the full bank title and legal tender clause inscribed across the note. |
| Reverse lettering | NARODOWY BANK POLSKI 50 BANKNOTY EMITOWANE PRZEZ NARODOWY BANK POLSKI SĄ PRAWNYM ŚRODKIEM PŁATNICZYM W POLSCE 50 PIĘĆDZIESIĄT ZŁOTYCH NBP |
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Poland's 1994 banknote series was the first issued after the January 1995 redenomination was already decided — meaning these notes were designed and printed knowing they would have a short service life. The 50 Zloty denomination under the new scale replaced 500,000 of the old hyperinflation-era złotych, a ratio that tells you everything about what the early 1990s had done to Polish purchasing power.
Printed by the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW) in Warsaw, P#175 remained legal tender well past the initial transition period. PWPW had significantly upgraded its intaglio capabilities by this issue, and the security thread specification here is a simple embedded type — later series would move to windowed threads.