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{{See also|Polish złoty}}
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This is a list of '''historical coins and banknotes of [[Poland]]'''.

==Before the 20th century==
[[File:Tymf - złotówka 1663.jpg|thumb|Tymf - złotówka 1663]]

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|+ <span style="font-size:140%;">'''Polish coins and banknotes'''</span>
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! width=20%| [[Denomination (currency)|Unit]]&nbsp;(ZŁ) !! width=40%| Obverse !! width=40%| Reverse
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|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Coins ([[Congress Poland|Kingdom of Poland]])''
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|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Banknotes (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)''
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| 4 zł || [[File:4 złote polskie 1794 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:4 złote polskie 1794 rewers.jpg|300px]]
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|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Banknotes (Duchy of Warsaw)''
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|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Coins (1815-1850)''
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| 2 zł || [[Image:Królestwo Polskie- Mikołaj I 30 kopiejek 2 złote 1836.JPG|300px]]
|-
| 5 zł || [[Image:Królestwo Polskie- Mikołaj I 34rubla 5 złotych 1837.JPG|300px]]
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|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Banknotes (1850-1917)''
|}

==20th-century and interwar==
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|- bgcolor="#ffdead;" 
! width=20%| [[Denomination (currency)|Unit]]&nbsp;(ZŁ) !! width=40%| Obverse !! width=40%| Reverse
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|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Banknotes (1917-1924)''
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| {{1/2}} mark || [[File:0.5 marki polskiej 1916 generał awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:0.5 marki polskiej 1916 generał rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 10 marks || [[File:10 marek polskich 1916 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:10 marek polskich 1916 rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 50 marks || [[File:50 marek polskich 1916  awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:50 marek polskich 1916 rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 100 marks || [[File:100 marek polskich 1916 jenerał awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:100 marek polskich 1916 jenerał rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Banknotes (1924-1939)''
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| 10 gr || [[File:Bilet zdawkowy 10 groszy 1924 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:Bilet zdawkowy 10 groszy 1924 rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 2 zł (1936) || [[Image:1936.jpg|300px]] || [[File:2 złote banknote of Poland, 1936.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 5 zł (1930) || [[Image:5 złotych banknote, averse (Poland, 1930).jpg|300px]] || [[Image:5 złotych 1930 r. REWERS.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 10 zł (1929) || [[Image:10 złotych 1929 r. AWERS.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:10 złotych 1929 r. REWERS.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 20 zł (1929) || [[File:20 złotych 1929 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:20 złotych 1929 rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 20 zł (1931) || [[File:20 złotych 1931 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:20 złotych 1931 rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 20 zł (1936) || [[Image:20 złotych 1936 r. AWERS.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:20 złotych 1936 r. REWERS.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 50 zł (1929) || [[Image:50 złotych 1929 r. AWERS.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:50 złotych 1929 r. REWERS.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 50 zł (1936) || [[File:50 złotych 1936 Jan Henryk Dąbrowski awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:50 złotych 1936 Jan Henryk Dąbrowski rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 100 zł (1934) || [[Image:100 złotych 1934 r. AWERS.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:100 złotych 1934 r. REWERS.jpg|300px]]
|-
|colspan=3 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Banknotes (1939-1944)''
|-
| 1 zł (1940) || [[Image:1 zł 1940 awers v2.JPG|300px]] || [[Image:1 zł 1940 rewers v2.JPG|300px]]
|-
| 1 zł (1941) || [[Image:1złotyGGawers.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:Rewersbanknotu1złotyGG.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 2 zł (1941) || [[Image:2złoteawers.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:2złoterewersGG.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 5 zł (1940) || [[Image:5 zł 1940 awers.JPG|300px]] || 
|-
| 5 zł (1941) || [[Image:Banknot5złotychGGawers.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:5złotych1.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 10 zł (1940) || [[Image:Banknot10złotychawersGG.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:Rewers10złotych1GG.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 20 zł (1940) || [[Image:20 zł 1940 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:20złotychrewersGG.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 50 zł (1940) || [[Image:50 zł 1940 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:50 złotych 1940 rewers.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 50 zł (1941) || [[Image:Awers50złotychGG.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:Rewers50złotychGG.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 100 zł (1940) || [[Image:Awers100złotych1GG.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:Rewers100złotych1GG.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 100 zł (1941) || [[Image:Awers100złotychGG.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:Rewers100złGG.jpg|300px]]
|-
| 500 zł (1940) || [[Image:500 zł 1940 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:Góral1.jpg|300px]]
|}

=== Coins ===
1924 - See [http://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/du/1924/s/45/D1924045000001.pdf Dziennik Ustaw 1924-045]

==Post-WWII==
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|- bgcolor="#ffdead;" 
! Image !! width=20%| [[Denomination (currency)|Unit]]&nbsp;(ZŁ) !! width=40%| Obverse !! width=40%| Reverse
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|colspan=4 bgcolor="#efefef" align=center| ''Banknotes (1945-1950)''
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|align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/poland-paper-money-20-zlotych-1947-issue.html]|| 20 zł || [[File:20 złotych 1947 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:20 złotych 1947 rewers.jpg|300px]]  
|-
|align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/poland-paper-money-100-zlotych-1947.html]|| 100 zł || [[File:100 złotych 1947 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:100 złotych 1947 rewers.jpg|300px]]  
|-
|align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-poland-paper-money-500-zlotych.html]|| 500 zł || [[File:500 złotych 1947 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:500 złotych 1947 rewers.jpg|300px]]  
|-
|align="center" | [http://coinsbanknotespictures.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-poland-paper-money-1000-zlotych.html]|| 1000 zł || [[File:1000 złotych 1947 awers.jpg|300px]] || [[File:1000 złotych 1947 rewers.jpg|300px]]  
|}

==1950-currency reform==
===Series of 1948===
The banknotes of the series of 1948 were designed by Polish painter and decorative artist [[Wacław Borowski]]. The introduction of these notes was part of the currency reform of 1950,<ref>[http://numibyd.pl/art_005.html The 1950 currency reform, i.e. let's take people's money]</ref> so the banknotes had to be printed quickly and in secrecy; so printing works in Poland ([[:pl:Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych|PWPW]]), Czechoslovakia ([[:cs:Státní tiskárna cenin|STC]]), Hungary ([[:hu:Pénzjegynyomda Zrt.|Pénzjegynyomda]]), Sweden ([[Tumba Bruk|Riksbankens Sedeltryckeri]]), and Canada (British American Bank Note Company Ltd.) were involved.

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%"
!colspan="10"|Series of 1948 
|-
!colspan="2"| Image !!rowspan="2"| Value !!rowspan="2"| Dimensions !!colspan="2"| Description !!colspan="4"| Date of 
|-
! Obverse !! Reverse !! Obverse !! Reverse !! first printing !! issue !! withdrawal !! lapse
|-
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:2 złote 1948 awers.jpg|84px]]
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:2 złote 1948 rewers.jpg|84px]]
| 2 zł
| 120&nbsp;mm × 58&nbsp;mm
| Face value
| The design of the (then) future NBP building at [[Warsaw Insurgents Square (Warsaw)|Warsaw Insurgents Square]] in Warsaw 
|rowspan="7"| 1 July 1948
|rowspan="7"| 30 October 1950
|rowspan="2"| 1 January 1960
|rowspan="2"| 30 June 1960
|-
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:5 złotych 1948 awers.jpg|99px]]
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:5 złotych 1948 rewers.jpg|99px]]
| 5 zł
| 142&nbsp;mm × 67&nbsp;mm
| Face value
| Farmer plowing a field with a tractor
|-
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:10 złotych 1948 awers.jpg|104px]]
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:10 złotych 1948 rewers.jpg|104px]]
| 10 zł
| 148&nbsp;mm × 70&nbsp;mm
| Portrait of a peasant (inspired by Mateusz Jóźwiak, the creator of cast printing matrices at PWPW)
| Peasants loading sheaves to a ladder wagon.
| 31 December 1965
| 30 June 1966
|-
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:20 złotych 1948 awers.jpg|112px]]
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:20 złotych 1948 rewers.jpg|112px]]
| 20 zł
| 160&nbsp;mm × 76&nbsp;mm
| Portrait of a woman in kerchief (nicknamed "Anielka"; the portrait was supposedly inspired by Helena Michalik (née Bujak), who was a friend of Wacław Borowski)<ref>[http://numibyd.pl/art_006.html Anielka - a mysterious worker from a banknote.]</ref><ref>[https://dziennikpolski24.pl/dziewczyna-z-banknotu/ar/3095240 Girl with a banknote]</ref>
| [[Kraków Cloth Hall]]
| 30 June 1977
| 31 December 1977
|-
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:50 złotych 1948 awers.jpg|115px]]
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:50 złotych 1948 rewers.jpg|115px]]
| 50 zł
| 164&nbsp;mm × 78&nbsp;mm
| Portrait of a fisherman
| [[Port of Gdynia]]
| 30 June 1978
| 31 December 1978
|-
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:100 złotych 1948 awers.jpg|120px]]
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:100 złotych 1948 rewers.jpg|120px]]
| 100 zł
| 172&nbsp;mm × 82&nbsp;mm
| Portrait of a worker (a so-called "[[Wincenty Pstrowski|Pstrowski]]"; portrait inspired by Bronisław Tomaszewski, who was a driver at PWPW)
| View of a factory with smoking chimneys (probably Łódź)
| 30 June 1977
| 31 December 1977
|-
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:500 złotych 1948 awers.jpg|125px]]
|align="center" bgcolor="#000000"| [[File:500 złotych 1948 rewers.jpg|125px]]
| 500 zł
| 178&nbsp;mm × 85&nbsp;mm
| Portrait of a miner in helmet
| Underground mining scene
| 31 December 1977
| 30 June 1978
|-
|colspan="10"|{{Standard banknote table notice|standard_scale=Y|BrE=Y}}
|}

===Series of 1974===
The National Bank of Poland began to introduce banknotes with the faces of "Great Poles" and the series was first introduced on 16 December 1974 with the 500 Zloty note. As economical situations worsened, by the 1980s higher and higher denominations worsened and in 1989, the 20000 was adopted which was equvialent to half of a wage of that time(65,000 Zloty). By the end of 1989, a commemorative note was released into circulation, the 200,000 Zloty banknote which is rather a numismatical product(which still has a huge price tag even today) than an actual banknote meant for everyday payments/transactions. In 1990, as wages were regulated to the actual value of the currency, new higher denonimation notes were released such as the 500,000 Zloty note which was worth 50 Dollars and then it was devalued to 30 dollars when a new exchange rate was finalized to prevent hyperinflation. At the end of 1993, new reworked editions of banknotes(50.000,100.000,500.000,1.000.000 and 2.000.000 Zloty) were released which also erased the old Polish People's Republic name from the 50.000 and 100.000 Zloty banknotes in circulation. In 1994 they stopped printing old Zloty notes to later establish the Fourth Zloty by 1st January 1995. All of the banknotes together were withdrawn on 31st December 1996 and were no longer exchanged by 2010.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%"
! colspan="8" |1974 Series
|-
! Image !! Value !! Dimensions !! Colour !! Obverse !! Reverse !! Printed
|Withdrawn
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" |[[File:10zl old..png|139px]]<br>[[File:Reverse10zl old..png|139px]]
| 10 zł
| rowspan="17" | 139 x 63&nbsp;mm
| Bluish green
| [[Józef Bem]]
| Indication of value
| 1982
| rowspan="17" |31 December 1996
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | <br> 
| 20 zł
| Multicoloured
| [[Romuald Traugutt]]
| Indication of value
| 1982
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | <br> 
| 50 zł
| Green
| [[Karol Świerczewski]]
| [[Grunwald Cross Medal]]
| 1975,1979,1982, 1986,1988
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-100-zloty-banknote-1975-ludwik-warynski.html]
| 100 zł
| Red
| [[Ludwik Waryński]]
| "[[Proletaryat]]" (19th century Polish socialist party)
| 1975,1976, 1979,1982,1986,1988
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-200-zloty-banknote-1988-jaroslaw-dabrowski.html]
| 200 zł
| Violet
| [[Jarosław Dąbrowski]]
| Monument to the Dead (of the [[Paris Commune]]) by [[Paul Moreau-Vauthier]] in the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]
| 1976, 1979,1986,1988
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | <br> 
| 500 zł
| Brown
| [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]]
| "Żywią i Bronią" (They feed and defend), flag of Polish soldiers in Kraków during the [[Kościuszko Uprising]]
| 1974,1976,1979,1982
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | <br> 
| 1000 zł
| Blue
| [[Nicolaus Copernicus]]
| [[Heliocentrism|Heliocentric Solar System]]
| 1975,1979,1982
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | <br> 
| 2000 zł
| Brown
| [[Mieszko I of Poland|Mieszko I]]
| [[Bolesław I of Poland|Bolesław I the Brave]]
| 1977,1979,1982
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-5000-zloty-banknote-1982-frederic-chopin.html]
| 5000 zł
| Green
| [[Frédéric Chopin]]
| [[Polonaise (Chopin)|Polonaise]] notes
| 1982,1986, 1988
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-10000-zloty-banknote-stanislaw-wyspianski.html]
| 10&nbsp;000 zł
| Green and violet
| [[Stanisław Wyspiański]]
| [[Kraków]]
| 1987,1988
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-20000-zloty-banknote-1988-marie-sklodowska-curie.html]
| 20&nbsp;000 zł
| Orange
| [[Marie Curie|Maria Skłodowska-Curie]]
| [[Nuclear reactor]] "[[Ewa reactor|Ewa]]" near [[Warsaw]]
| 1989
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/poland-paper-money-50000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 50&nbsp;000 zł
| Brown
| [[Stanisław Staszic]]
| The [[Polish Academy of Sciences|Staszic Palace]] in [[Warsaw]]
| 1989,1993
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/04/poland-100000-zloty-banknote-1990-stanislaw-moniuszko.html]
| 100&nbsp;000 zł
| Blue
| [[Stanisław Moniuszko]]
| [[Teatr Wielki, Warsaw]]
| 1990,1993
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/poland-currency-200000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 200&nbsp;000 zł
| Brown
| [[Coat of arms of Poland|Coat of arms]]
| [[Warsaw]]
| 1989
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/polish-banknotes-500000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 500&nbsp;000 zł
| Blue and brown
| [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]
| "[[Henryk Sienkiewicz#Works|Trilogy]]"
| 1990,1993
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | [https://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2012/03/polish-banknotes-1000000-zloty-banknote.html]
| 1&nbsp;000&nbsp;000 zł
| Light brown
| [[Władysław Reymont]]
| Country landscape
| 1991,1993
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#000000" |
| 2&nbsp;000&nbsp;000 zł
| Multicoloured
| [[Ignacy Jan Paderewski]]
| The 1919 [[Coat of arms of Poland]]
| 1992,1993
|-
| colspan="8" |<small>These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimeter, a standard for world banknotes.</small>
|}
A lot of these banknotes that circulated from 1974 to 1988 were printed in several years.

==See also==
* [[Polish coins and banknotes]]

==References==
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