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500 Zlotys Bór-Komorowski Solidarity banknote
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (Solidarity underground issue) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski at left centre, in military uniform, with a facsimile signature below. The heading reads NARODOWY BANK POLSKI with the denomination 500 PIĘCSET ZŁOTYCH at right. Dates WR 27091939 and ST 19011945 appear as serial-style references, with the Polish eagle emblem at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a map of occupied Poland overlaid with the Kotwica (Armia Krajowa anchor symbol) on a brick-wall underprint at left. The denomination 500 appears at upper right and lower left, flanked by the NBP monogram in stylised script at lower right. A bold inscription across the lower portion commemorates Operation Burza and the fate of AK soldiers. |
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This note was produced clandestinely by the Polish Home Army's financial apparatus in the final weeks of the Warsaw Uprising, intended to function as emergency currency within liberated zones that never fully materialized. Bór-Komorowski — General Tadeusz Komorowski, commanding officer of the Armia Krajowa — signed the authorization, lending the note its popular name among collectors, though his actual signature does not appear on surviving examples.
The Solidarity attribution in modern catalogs reflects the note's later appropriation as a symbol by the underground opposition movement, which reproduced or circulated surviving specimens during the 1980s as acts of political defiance against the communist-era NBP.