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1 Cent (0,01 US$)
| Issuer | Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A. |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in olive-green on cream paper, covered by an overall fine guilloche diaper pattern. At the centre, a large oval guilloche rosette bears the Pekao logotype — a globe device above the word PEKAO — executed in white-on-green intaglio style. A rectangular bank validation stamp is applied in black in the lower centre. Fine-print text at the foot reads the standard forfeiture and replacement conditions for Bank PKO foreign-exchange bon towarowy certificates. |
| Reverse lettering | Pekao BONY TOWAROWE BANKU PKO S.A. NIE PODLEGAJĄ UMORZENIU LW ZA MIAN BONÓW UTRACONYCH. BANK PKO S.A. NIE WYDAJE DOKUMENTÓW ZASTĘPCZYCH. |
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Bank Polska Kasa Opieki — PKO — was a state-controlled foreign currency institution, not a conventional central bank. These cent denominations were part of a series of dollar-denominated vouchers issued for use in Pewex hard-currency shops, where Polish citizens could spend remittances received from abroad without those dollars passing through the black market. The regime's motive was straightforward: capture foreign exchange before it disappeared into unofficial channels.
Printed domestically in Warsaw despite the US dollar denomination — an unusual arrangement that underscores the purely internal function of the series.