Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Zloty German occupation
| Issuer | Bank Emisyjny w Polsce |
|---|---|
| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in grey-blue tones and dominated by the large bold Gothic-style inscription JEDEN ZŁOTY at upper centre, below which the issuer name BANK EMISYJNY W POLSCE and the date KRAKÓW 1 MARCA 1940 R. appear in smaller lettering. To the right, an ornate guilloche panel frames a large numeral '1' over the word ZŁOTY, surrounded by intricate lathe-work borders. Two manuscript facsimile signatures of the Prezydent and Zastępca Prezydenta appear at centre-left above a red serial number. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in grey-blue and composed entirely of typographic and guilloche elements without a pictorial vignette. A large central numeral '1' is set within an elaborate guilloche underprint, flanked symmetrically by two oval lathe-work medallions each bearing the abbreviation ZŁ. The inscriptions BANK EMISYJNY W POLSCE run along the top border and JEDEN ZŁOTY along the bottom, with corner numerals '1' at each angle. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Bank Emisyjny w Polsce was a German-controlled institution established in April 1940 specifically to replace the Bank Polski and issue an occupation currency for the General Government territory. It was never a Polish national bank in any meaningful sense — its creation was an administrative mechanism to extract economic value from occupied Poland while severing the population from pre-war monetary structures.
The 1 Złoty note of this series was printed in Berlin. Low denominations circulated heavily among the civilian population and were subject to strict exchange controls that systematically disadvantaged Polish holders.