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20 Zlotys Juliusz Słowacki
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Fourth Zloty (1995-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and tan tones over a yellow underprint, with intaglio-printed vignette at right presenting a portrait of the Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki. At center, a vignette of the manor house in Krzemieniec, which houses the Juliusz Słowacki Museum, rendered in fine-line engraving against a guilloche-patterned background. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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This note was issued to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Juliusz Słowacki, the Romantic poet whose remains were repatriated from Paris — where he died in 1849 — to Wawel Cathedral in Kraków in 1927, a state ceremony presided over by Józef Piłsudski. The repatriation itself was politically charged; Piłsudski reportedly declared that Słowacki deserved to be among kings.
P#180 is a commemorative collector issue rather than a circulation note, printed by PWPW on cotton paper with relatively modest security provisions for its type. Krajewski's engraving work on Polish commemoratives of this period is consistently among the finer examples of the intaglio craft still practiced domestically.