POLISH NUMISMATIC WEB SITE Pubblico Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 44, November 3, 2002, Article 8
POLISH NUMISMATIC WEB SITE
Gosia Fort writes: "I was browsing the Internet Museum
of the Polish People's Republic, when I found several items
related to the field of numismatics. The site is mainly in Polish,
but here is a brief guideline for the selected pages:"Polish People's Republic Money and National Bank of Poland
bonds" has images of Polish paper money, bond and exchange
notes issued between 1944-1990.
http://www.polskaludowa.com/pieniadze.htm""Money and postcards issued by the opposition" includes four
specimens of paper money issued on Dec. 13th, 1981 (the first
day of the martial law in Poland and in 1982 during the martial
law):
http://www.polskaludowa.com/opozycja/opozycja_okolicznosciowe.htm1. Banknot 1 zomol ("zomol" is a made up word from the
acronym ZOMO; that stands for the infamous police force
created in the 80s to enforce the martial law in Poland)
http://www.polskaludowa.com/opozycja/okolicznosciowe/1_zomol.htm2. Banknot 10 zl with Adam Michnik (it has the same design
as the circulating 10 zl, but pictures Adam Michnik, the
serial number on the left is the date of introducing martial
law, the serial number on the right is a date of establishing
KOR [Committee for Workers' Defence] and the issue
date is the date of bloody strike in Radom, which lead to
creating KORhttp://www.polskaludowa.com/opozycja/okolicznosciowe/banknot_Michnik.htm
3. Banknot 30 srebrnikow (30 silvers with the image of gen.
Jaruzelski)http://www.polskaludowa.com/opozycja/okolicznosciowe/30_srebnikow.htm
4. Banknot 50 groszy (50 grosz of Solidarity issued during
the martial law)http://www.polskaludowa.com/opozycja/okolicznosciowe/50_groszy.htm
"Documents marked by the opposition" includes interesting
examples of marks stamped by the Solidarity on circulating
money to show that though delegalized and drawn to the
underground, the Solidarity movement is undefeated and
still fighting..."- 2002-11-03
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