20zł - Fryderyk Chopin, 2010 - collector bank note

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200 Anniversary of the birth of Fryderyk Chopin

The new , fourth in line, will be issued by NBP on the occasion of 200 Anniversary of the birth of Fryderyk Chopin sometime in March /April, details will come.
Here there is presented first look at graphic design.

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Issue date February 22 2010.
Official selling price 50.00PLN.

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200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Chopin

The National Bank of Poland will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of an eminent Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin by issuing a collector note with the face value of 20 złoty.

The note will be issued at the turn of February and March 2010. It will be sold solely at an internet auction in the Kolekcjoner service. Participation in the auction requires prior registration of an account in the Kolekcjoner internet service. Detailed information on the NBP auction portal can be found at the website http://www.kolekcjoner.nbp.pl

The front of the banknote depicts a portrait of Frédéric Chopin in profile. This element has been made with steel engraving technique. The engraving of the portrait was made by Przemysław Krajewski – hand engraving artist at the Polish Security Printing Works. On the left-hand side, there is an image of the manor house in Żelazowa Wola where the composer was born. On the right-hand side, there is a reproduction of the first edition of Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 7 No. 1 and of the autograph of the composer.

The back of the banknote shows a facsimile of a fragment of Étude in f-minor, Op. 10, No. 9, against a landscape with willows, characteristic of Central Poland region.

Banknote designers: Grzegorz Pfeifer and Katarzyna Jarnuszkiewicz. The engraving of the Chopin portrait by Przemysław Krajewski – hand engraving artist at the Polish Security Printing Works.

Size: 138 x 69 mm

The banknotes have been printed by the Polish Security Printing Works. The banknote is legal tender in Poland. Its face value is 20 złoty.


Security features of the banknot:

Paper security
• watermark – portrait of Frédéric Chopin in profile,
• security thread with microlettering, with a recurring sign composed of the marking of the face value: 20 ZŁ and its mirror image.
Printing security
• Intaglio printing on the front of the note – identifiable by touch,
• Offset microlettering:
– on the front of the banknote, the inscriptions: ”20”, “ZŁ”, “N”, “B”, “P”,
– on the back of the banknote, the inscriptions “NBP20NBP20”, and
“NARODOWYBANKPOLSKI20ZŁ” in varying letter height,
• Serial number on the back of the note,
- vertically, along the left edge of the banknote,
- horizontally, at the bottom on the right-hand side of the note,
• Optically variable ink changing colour from golden into green, depending on the angle the note is viewed at:
– on the front of the note, at the bottom on the left-hand side, a facsimile of
Frédéric Chopin’s signature,
– on the back of the note, at the top on the left-hand side, a stylised image of a music stand, and at the top and in the middle, a stylised stave,
• Recto-verso – fragments of a notation printed on both sides of the note, when held against the light combining perfectly to form a complete image,
• Ultraviolet security features
– on the front of the banknote, a fragment of the Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 7
No. 1 with a notation of the bars 2-3 and 7-8,
– a serial number printed vertically on the back of the note, along the left edge on the note,
• “XX” feature for the visually impaired – on the front of the note, at the bottom lefthand corner, identifiable by touch.