Collection PL

Poland 1988 - 50 Zlotych Prefix HK Missing Signatures Date Print Error Issued Note (Pick 142c)

The portrait depicts General Karol Świerczewski, a prominent military figure of the Polish People’s Republic era. The surrounding design incorporates a dense offset guilloche network and intaglio portrait engraving typical of late communist-period banknote production at Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych in Warsaw. Read more →

Poland 1988 - 50 Zlotych Prefix HK Issued Note (Pick 142c)

The 50 Złotych banknote dated 'Warszawa, 1 Grudnia 1988' represents one of the final circulating issues of the Polish People's Republic before the monetary and political transformations of the early 1990s. Printed by Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych in Warsaw for the Narodowy Bank Polski, the denomination formed part of the 1986–1988 modernization of the circulating banknote series. Read more →

Poland 1938 - Ministry of Finance 1 Zloty State Ticket IB4039776 (Pick 50)

The note was designed by Leonard Sowinski, engraved by Marian Romuald Polak, and printed by Polska Wytwornia Papierow Wartosciowych S.A. in Warsaw. It represents the final stage of pre-war Polish state paper-money production immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. Read more →

Poland 1938 - Ministry of Finance 1 Zloty with WZÓR and BEZ WARTOŚCI Overprints Specimen (Pick 50s)

The ticket was designed by Leonard Sowinski, engraved by Marian Romuald Polak, and printed by Polska Wytwornia Papierow Wartosciowych S.A. in Warsaw. Its production belongs to the final prewar phase of Polish state paper money and to the treasury-ticket programme introduced in response to a shortage of subsidiary coinage. Read more →