2019-10-03 Thu

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW), a collectors’ 19z? (z?oty) banknote has been issued by the National Bank of Poland.

The note, which is available for 85z?, is adorned with the face of the Prime Minister of the day Ignacy Jan Paderewski and also features a watermark of the eagle found on the first banknote produced by PWPW in 1920.

The portrait of Ignacy Jan Paderewski used on the note was from a steel engraving created by Krystian Michalczuk with the design of the rest of the note made by Justyna Kopecka.

To the left of the portrait, there is an image of the White Eagle Order, Poland’s highest order, of which Paderewski was a recipient.

The note, the first-ever 19z? banknote produced in Poland, also features the inscription ‘independence’, in the handwriting of Józef Pi?sudski.

In another first for Polish banknotes, a holographic stripe with the image of an eagle, visible in a window was used in the paper substrate.

The laurel branch visible in the lower-left corner uses the ‘Umbra4Note’ protection technology developed by PWPW.

The other side of the 19z? note shows the building of the Polish Security Printing Works with contemporary Warsaw shown in the background.

The National Bank of Poland said that only 55,000 of the notes have been printed.

Image Courtesy: The First News