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| 正面描述 | Printed in purple and green, the obverse is dominated by an intaglio portrait vignette of Tadeusz Kościuszko at upper left, rendered in fine line engraving against an intricate guilloche underprint. The central field bears the issuer's name BANK POLSKI and the denomination inscription PIĘĆSET ZŁOTYCH, with the date and place of issue WARSZAWA dn 28 Lutego 1919 roku below. Two serial number panels reading SA appear at lower left and right, flanked by ornate scrollwork borders, with the denomination numeral 500 repeated in corner cartouches marked ZŁOTYCH. |
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| 防伪描述 | Tadeusz Kościuszko portrait watermark. |
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Bank Polski's 500 Złotych of 1919 was issued during an extraordinary window — Poland had just re-emerged as a sovereign state after 123 years of partition, and the new government desperately needed a functioning currency before any stable monetary infrastructure existed. Waterlow & Sons in London produced the notes because there was no domestic printing capacity capable of handling the job.
The Polish mark was already in circulation alongside this zloty-denominated paper, creating genuine confusion in daily commerce. The watermark security feature was among the few practical counterfeit deterrents available under the rushed production timeline.