Polish coins and banknotes

Current Polish coins and banknotes issued by the National Bank of Poland. For historical ones, see here.

Coins

Although some of the coins were minted as early as 1990, they were not released until January 1, 1995, when the złoty was redenominated.

1990 Series [1]
Image		Value	Technical parameters			Description			Date of first minting
Obverse	Reverse		Diameter	Mass	Composition	Edge	Obverse	Reverse
		1 grosz	15.5 mm	1.64 g	Steel bronze	Serrated	State title and the eagle of the coat of arms	Value and 1 leaf	1990
		2 grosze	17.5 mm	2.13 g		Plain		Value and 2 leaves
		5 groszy	19.5 mm	2.59 g		Alternately smooth and serrated		Value and 5 leaves
		10 groszy	16.5 mm	2.51 g	Cupronickel	Alternately smooth and serrated	State title and the eagle of the coat of arms	Value and encircling leaves	1990
		20 groszy	18.5 mm	3.22 g		Serrated		Value and square-shaped leaves
		50 groszy	20.5 mm	3.94 g				Value and leaves in semicircle shape
		1 zł	23 mm	5 g		Alternately smooth and serrated		Value and leaves in full-circle shape
		2 zł	21.5 mm Core: 12 mm	5.21 g	Ring: Aluminium bronze Center: Cupronickel	Plain		Value and 2 leaves in the ring portion	1994
		5 zł	24 mm Core: 16 mm	6.54 g	Ring: Cupronickel Center: Aluminium bronze	Irregularly milled	State title and the eagle of the coat of arms	Value and 5 leaves in the ring portion	1994
Note: due to copyright law in Poland the Polish zloty coins may not be freely reproduced.

Banknotes

1994 Series [2]
Image		Value	Dimensions	Main colour	Description			Date of
Obverse	Reverse				Obverse	Reverse	Watermark	printing	issue
		10 zł	120 × 60 mm	Dark brown	Mieszko I	Silver denar coin during the reign of Mieszko I	As portrait	25 March 1994	1 January 1995
		20 zł	126 × 63 mm	Violet, pink	Bolesław I Chrobry	Silver denar coin during the reign of Bolesław I Chrobry
		50 zł	132 × 66 mm	Dark blue	Kazimierz III Wielki	White Eagle from the royal seal of Casimir III the Great and the regalia of Poland: sceptre and globus cruciger
		100 zł	138 × 69 mm	Dark green	Władysław II Jagiełło	Shield bearing a White Eagle from the tombstone of Władysław II Jagiełło, coat of the Teutonic Knights and the Grunwald Swords
		200 zł	144 × 72 mm	Brown, orange	Zygmunt I Stary	Eagle intertwined with the letter S in a hexagon, from the Sigismund's Chapel
Note: due to copyright law in Poland the Polish zloty banknotes may not be freely reproduced.

Commemorative banknotes

Commemorative Series [3]
Value	Dimensions	Main Color	Description			Date of
			Obverse	Reverse	Watermark	printing	issue
10 zł	138 x 69 mm	Pink, orange	Coat of arms, Belweder Palace, Commander Józef Piłsudski	White eagle, Monument of the Heroic Deed of Polish Legions in Kielce.	Józef Piłsudski, electrotype denomination	80,000	November 3, 2008
20 zł	138 x 69 mm	Orange, yellow, brown	Coat of arms, Chalet in Krzemieniec, Juliusz Słowacki	Cranes, an excerpt of the poem Sedation, Statue of Sigismund III Vasa at Castle Square in Warsaw.	Juliusz Słowacki, electrotype denomination	80,000	September 23, 2009
20 zł	138 x 69 mm	Light blue, Light brown, black	Frédéric Chopin, the mansion in Zelazowa where the composer was born, reproduction of the first edition of Mazurka in B-flat major, Opus 7 No 1, Chopin's autograph.	Facsimile of a fragment of Étude in f-minor, Opus 10, No 9, landscape in Central Poland with Masovian willows.	Chopin	120,000	February 26, 2010
20 zł	138 x 69 mm	Brown and green	Marie Skłodowska Curie, Sorbona w Paryżu (Sorbonne school building in Paris), Coat of arms, Ra (atomic symbol for radium) in SPARK patch in concentric circles.	Curie quotation, Instytut Radowy w Warszawie (Radium Institute building in Warsaw); Nobel Prize medal for chemistry.	Marie Skłodowska Curie and electrotype denomination	60,000	December 12, 2011
50 zł	144 x 72 mm	Blue, yellow	Pope John Paul II	Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, a quotation from Letter to Poles, Jasna Góra Monastery and church	Papal arms of John Paul II	2,000,000	October 16, 2006

References

1. ^ National Bank of Poland - Internet Information Service
2. ^ National Bank of Poland - Internet Information Service
3. ^ National Bank of Poland - Internet Information Service

See also

• Polish euro coins
• Polish złoty
• Commemorative coins of Poland