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50 Zlotys
| Uitgever | Najwyższa Rada Narodowa (Supreme National Council) |
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| Jaar | 1794 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed on rust-brown paper, the obverse bears the heading 'BLO SAADOW' at the top in large ornamental letterpress script, followed by a series letter 'D' and the authorization line referencing the Supreme National Council decree of 8 June 1794. A central vignette presents the coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth flanked by the cursive legend 'Bilet Skarbowy' (Treasury Note), with the numeral '50' in a framed box at left and the word 'PIĘĆDZIESIĄT' in a framed cartouche at right. The lower portion carries a lengthy handwritten-style typeset text in Polish detailing the note's legal tender obligations, overlaid by large letterpress underprint letters 'B' and 'S' in red-orange, with two manuscript signatures and a handwritten serial number in an oval cartouche at the foot. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | WOLNOŚĆ CAŁOŚĆ NIEPODLEGŁOŚĆ |
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This note belongs to the insurrectionary currency issued during the Kościuszko Uprising — Poland's last armed effort to prevent the partitions from becoming permanent. The Najwyższa Rada Narodowa, the civilian governing body Kościuszko established in Kraków in May 1794, needed to finance a war against Russia and Prussia simultaneously, with no functioning state treasury and no foreign credit available. Paper money was the only option.
The Warsaw printing was organised under extraordinary pressure. Engravers and pressmen were working in a city that would fall to Suvorov's forces by November of the same year. Notes from this emission rarely survived the subsequent Russian occupation intact — confiscation and deliberate destruction were common.
The watermark is the sole security measure, a thin defence against forgery that the Russians themselves were reportedly not above exploiting.