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200 Zlotys 1831 Insurrection
| Issuer | Kasa Generalna Królestwa Polskiego (General Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland) |
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| Year | 1831 |
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| Value | 200 Zlotys (200 Złotych) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse entirely in typeset letterpress, with no pictorial vignettes or border ornament. The upper portion contains printed ledger fields in cursive script for recording issue and receipt data — including "Wydana z Kassy," "Wydatków Nr," "Dziennika Dochodów Nr," and spaces for date, collector (POBORCA), and controllers (KONTROLLEROWIE). A lower accounting section records principal (w Kapitale) and accrued interest (w Procencie do dnia) with totals in Złotych polskich, and the note closes with a printed receipt acknowledgement line in cursive: "Powyższą należność w dniu dzisiejszym odebrałem." |
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| Signature(s) | Hilary Ostrowski and Leon Dembowski |
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This note was issued during the November Uprising — the Polish insurrection against Russian rule that began in late 1830 and collapsed by September 1831. The Kasa Generalna, operating under the revolutionary National Government, issued paper currency as a wartime fiscal measure to fund the campaign. The uprising lasted less than a year, which sharply limits the window during which these notes could have been produced, signed, and put into use.
Both signatories held senior positions in the insurrectionary administration. Leon Dembowski served as Minister of Finance under the National Government. The brevity of the uprising means surviving examples almost certainly saw little or no redemption.