CATALOGUE OF POLISH BANKNOTES 1916-1994 MIŁCZAK C. Księgarnia

Banknote collecting is attracting more and more followers the world over. For many years, however, the absence of a detailed catalogue of Polish banknotes has been widely felt. To fill this need, it was decided to compile just such a catalogue which would be easily accessed and easy to use, even for persons unconnected with banknote collecting, such as historians.

The present catalogue embraces a broad range of illustrative material. Maps allow the collector to place on what Polish territory or territory historically connected with Poland a given banknote circulated.

The catalogue standardises the use of the term "banknote" for all paper money, regardless of the inscription on the face or the back. The only exceptions to this are the bank drafts of the Polish State Loan Bank of just two fixed denominations of 50 000 000 mkp and 100 000 000 mkp dated 20.11. 1923 (period of hyperinflation), which have been included in this catalogue. Security printers were incapable of keeping up with the galloping inflation. The lack of high denomination banknotes (the highest - 10 000 000 mkp - did not solve the problem) forced the Bank's hand into providing limited use bank drafts as legal tender, but their use gradually increased, their validity prolonged by three months by being appropriately stamped on the face. They were free of stamp duty and were accepted without any reservations in all branches of the Polish State Loan Bank. In a certain sense they replaced banknotes. In mid-January of 1924 the Polish Library Printers in Bydgoszcz began work on the design of new banknotes of 50 and 100 million marks. Work on the new banknotes was halted by the currency reform. Only the face of the 50 million mark note had been completed.

The banknotes have been catalogued chronologically, according to their dates of issue (with the exception of the baknotes dated 28.02.1919) inclusive of those banknotes which were never issued.

The present catalogue embraces the following issue periods:

- banknotes of the Government of the Governorship General of Warsaw, 1916-1918

- banknotes of the Republic of Poland, 1918-1939

- banknotes of the Bank of Poland in exile, 1939 (1940-1942)

- banknotes of the WW II period of German occupation, 1939-1944

- banknotes of the People's Republic of Poland, 1944-1989

- banknotes of the Republic of Poland, since 1990

The supplement covers:

- banknotes of the German Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe, Darlehnskasse Ost, Posen, 1916

- banknotes of the Darlehnskasse Ost, Kowno, 1918

- banknotes of the Jewish Ghetto in Litzmannstadt (Łódź), 1940-1944

307 pages, black & white pictures, Hardcover

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