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1000 Zlotych
| Issuer | Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in the same brown tone, the reverse is dominated by dense guilloche latticework framing a large central panel bearing the numeral 1000 in pale underprint. Two blocks of Polish statutory text are set above and below the central numeral in letterpress. The lower portion carries a circular guilloche rosette at left and an intaglio vignette of the Polish eagle at centre-right, with denomination numerals 1000 repeated in the lower corners and TYSIĄC in vertical panels at each side. |
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| Protection description | Watermark in the paper; watermark authentication confirmed by Gabinet Numizmatyczny D. Marciniak |
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Bank Polski's 1000 Złotych of 1919 was part of the first sovereign Polish note issue following the re-establishment of an independent Polish state after 123 years of partition. The timing was precarious — Poland was simultaneously fighting wars on multiple fronts, and the new currency had to assert legitimacy against a population that had spent generations using Russian rubles, German marks, and Austrian kronen depending on which corner of the country they lived in.
Waterlow & Sons handled the printing, as they did for a number of newly reconstituted or transitional governments in this period. The 1000 Złotych denomination was the highest in this issue, which made it both economically significant and a natural target for counterfeiting pressure during the inflationary chaos of the early 1920s.