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Poland
A state restored after 123 years of partition, its first marks, and banknotes overprinted by the underground opposition of the 1980s.
9 notes · 1917–1986
1 Marka Polska, 1917
— · OM-00150 · F
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00150
- Series year
- 1917
- Actually issued
- 1917
- chief treasurer
- not readuncertain
- director 1
- not readuncertain
- director 2
- not readuncertain
- Grade
- F (IBNS)
- Estimated value
- $3indicative
- Dimensions
- 110.1 × 68.9 mm (±0.5)
The type
- Type
- 1 Marka Polska, 1917
- Rarity
- common
- Themes
- First World War German occupation Interwar Poland
Inscriptions
Państwo Polskie przyjmuje odpowiedzialność za wymianę niniejszego biletu na przyszłą polską walutę według stosunku, który dla marek polskich uchwali Sejm Ustawodawczy
The Polish State accepts responsibility for exchanging this note for the future Polish currency at a rate to be resolved by the Legislative Sejm — money issued against a currency that did not yet exist
Symbology
- Polish eagle
- The white eagle of Poland, crowned - a state restored after 123 years of partition, reaching straight back to the arms it had before it vanished.
What was happening
Marks of the Polska Krajowa Kasa Pożyczkowa, the bank founded under German occupation in 1916 and inherited by independent Poland in 1918.
A new state with no monetary history of its own reached for its national portraits — Kościuszko above all — and printed marks until inflation forced the 1924 reform that created the złoty. These are the money of the first six years of Polish independence.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 1 Marka Polska, 1917 in the collection.