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500 Złotych

Emittente Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland
Anno 1831
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Valore 500 Złotych
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Descrizione del dritto Typeset note printed in black on cream paper with an ornamental border of fine guilloche and foliate corner pieces. The central panel bears the heading ASSYGNACYA in large letters above a decorative cartouche inscribed Assygnacya Skarbowa, beneath which the body text in Polish states the obligation of the General Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland to pay the bearer 500 Złotych with interest at six percent per annum four months from the date of issue. The denomination Złp: 500 appears in the upper right, with the serial number and lit. series designation in the upper left, and the vertical inscription NA ZŁP: PIĘĆSET flanking the left and right margins respectively; below the main text are printed signature lines for the Presiding Minister of the Revenue and Treasury Commission and two Dyrektor Jeneralny, with manuscript signatures present.
Legenda del dritto W DRUKARNI R. K. ASSYGNACYA SKARBOWA NA PIĘĆSET ZŁOTYCH POLSKICH
ASSYGNACYA
Assygnacya Skarbowa.
NA ZŁP:
PIĘĆSET
Nr Lit: C. Złp: 500.
MINISTER PREZYDUJĄCY
w Kommissii Rządo. Przycho. i Skarbu
Dyrektor Jeneralny Dyrektor Jeneralny
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Issued by the short-lived revolutionary government during the November Uprising against Russian rule, this note belongs to one of the most politically charged emission series in Polish monetary history. The Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland was operating under siege conditions — Russian forces were already mobilizing when these notes entered circulation, and the uprising collapsed by September 1831, barely months after issue.

The Warsaw printing was a necessity, not a choice. With Russian authority suspended and no access to foreign printers, the revolutionary treasury produced everything domestically, under considerable duress. After the uprising's suppression, Russian authorities declared the notes void and moved systematically to remove them from circulation. Surviving high-denomination examples are correspondingly rare.