500 Złotych, Narodowy Bank Polski

This copy

Accession

OM-00168

Series year

1982

Actually issued

1982

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VG (IBNS)

Soiling, heavy wear. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$1.5 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

137.2 × 63.1 mm (±0.6, from the scan)

Themes

Postwar Poland

The type

Type

500 Złotych, Narodowy Bank Polski

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the issuing bank

Narodowy Bank Polski

National Bank of Poland

Symbology

Polish eagle, uncrowned

The People's Republic removed the crown from the eagle in 1945; it was restored in 1990.

What was happening

A circulating national banknote of the modern era: a central bank, a national portrait, and a currency backed by nothing but the institution that issues it — the arrangement every note earlier in this collection was either trying to establish or failing to maintain.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 500 Złotych, Narodowy Bank Polski in the collection.