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500 000 Zlotys
| Issuer | Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 500 000 Zlotys (500 000 Złotych) (500 000 PLZ) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a heraldic shield bearing three open books, flanked by crossed military flags, lances, and a knight's helmet above, rendered in intaglio on a teal and ochre palette. The denomination numeral 500000 appears at upper right and in large letterpress at lower left, accompanied by the spelled-out value. A stylized NBP monogram watermark-style device is visible at lower right, with a legal tender text block to its left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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By the time this note entered circulation, Poland's post-communist hyperinflation had already peaked — the worst came in 1989–1990, when annual inflation briefly exceeded 600%. The 500,000 złoty denomination is itself the measure of that damage: in 1980, the largest circulating note had been 500 złotych. The 1994 redenomination replaced 10,000 old złotych with one new złoty, making this note worth fifty of the incoming currency and rendering the entire series obsolete within a year of printing.
PWPW had been producing Polish banknotes domestically since the interwar period, a point of deliberate national policy maintained even through the communist decades.