Types / 1919
1000 Marek Polskich, 1919
Bilet Polskiej Krajowej Kasy Pożyczkowej — Tysiąc marek polskich
common Tadeusz Kościuszko
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.
