20 zł 80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising
Category: Banknotes
Gross price: 140.00 zł
Net price: 113.82 zł
On the front of the note on the left, silhouettes of insurgents on a barricade, against the PAST (Polish Telephone Joint Stock Company) building in flames in Zielna Street in Warsaw. Centrally, a group of people surrounding German prisoners of war in front of a tenement house in Jasna Street in Warsaw after the PAST building was captured by the insurgents; at the bottom, a flag in the colours of the Republic of Poland, on the left of the flag, the inscription: 80. / ROCZNICA / WYBUCHU / POWSTANIA / WARSZAWSKIEGO (80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising). Along the top, a rectangular plane filled with microtext inscriptions: POWSTANIEWARSZAWSKIE1944 (WarsawUprising1944).
On back of the note on the left, silhouettes of insurgents with rifles against the background of a fragment of ruined buildings in Krakowskie Przedmieście Street in Warsaw; in the left bottom corner, the number: 20 composed of the inscriptions: 1VIII1944; below the number, the inscription: DWADZIEŚCIA / ZŁOTYCH (twenty złoty). On the right, a field altar during the mass celebrated by Capt. Rev. Mieczysław Paszkiewicz in the courtyard in Poznańska Street in Warsaw; its background is made up of the inscriptions: 1 VIII, 1944, NBP and the Fighting Poland Symbol, a shield with an image of an eagle, a cross and a flag.