2019-12-06 Fri

Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea known for its medieval architecture and Jewish heritage. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, has shopping centres and exciting nightlife. It is also famous for the Warsaw Uprising Museum, which honours the city’s WWII-era resistance to German occupation.

In the city of Krakow, 14th-century Wawel Castle that rises above the medieval old town was home to Cloth Hall, a Renaissance trading post in Rynek Glowny (market square).

The zloty is the currency of Poland. The word is the masculine form of the Polish adjective 'golden'. The modern zloty is subdivided into 100 groszy. The depicted in the image is 5000 Zloty banknote issued in the year 1988. The note specifications are as follows:

The obverse has the portrait of Polish composer Frederic Francois Chopin to right with the Coat of Arms in centre set within patterned design. The reverse depicts a section of Notes of Chopin's "Polonaise".

This predominately yellow-green banknote has a Crowned Eagle, Polish Coat of arms as its watermark.

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