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Jamesmblair New Member United Kingdom 33 Posts	Posted 02/12/2012 2:45 pm Hi, I am very new to this forum so please forgive me if I make any mistakes. I would like to know why Poland issued the 1949 20 and 50 Groszy, and I Zloty coins in both aluminium and cupro nickel. My own hypothesis is that the Al coins were for locals' use and the CuNi ones for western visitors, who at that time were legally required to daily convert a certain amount of hard currency into "convertable" Zlotych, which had to be spent in such places as hotels, airports, border railway stations, and certain shops. The different composition no doubt made it easier to keep track of the "convertable" Zlotych, and of course to detect black marketeering. Is this correct? Regards Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 02/12/2012 7:43 pm I don't know for sure. As far as I was aware, the "convertible" zloty was theoretical only; once you converted the western money into zlotych at their exorbitant official exchange rate, they were interchangeable with native zlotych. I would've assumed the "1949" was a frozen date used from 1949 to 1957, and that the cupronickel ones were earlier and the aluminium ones were later. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 02/14/2012 03:08 am I think I'd go with Sap on his explanation. The ones dated 1958 on were in aluminium so perhaps the government at the time decided that cupro-nickel coins we too expensive to produce and so switched to aluminium. Report this Post to the Staff
Tane New Member Finland 8 Posts	Posted 02/14/2012 6:53 pm Original 1949 mintage was in copper-nickel, and in early 1950's (probably 1951-1953, still with the old date) the material was changed to aluminium. Convertable zloty was only for accounting purposes. Report this Post to the Staff
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