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==Commemorative banknotes== {|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%" |- ! colspan="8" |Commemorative Series <ref>[http://www.nbp.pl/homen.aspx?f=/en/banknoty/kolekcjonerskie/banknoty_kolekcjonerskie_en.html The National Bank of Poland's Collector's Banknote page]</ref> |- ! rowspan="2" | Value !!rowspan="2"| Dimensions !!rowspan="2"| Main colour !!colspan="3"| Description !!rowspan="2"| Number issued !!rowspan="2"| Date of issue |- ! Obverse !! Reverse !!Watermark |- |50 zł |144 × 72 mm |Blue, yellow |[[Pope John Paul II]], [[Coat of arms of Poland|Polish coat of arms]] |[[Stefan Wyszyński|Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski]], a quotation from Letter to Poles, [[Jasna Góra Monastery]] and church |[[Papal coats of arms|Papal arms of John Paul II]] |2,000,000 |October 16, 2006 |- | 10 zł | 138 × 69 mm | Pink, orange | [[Coat of arms of Poland|Polish coat of arms]], Belweder Palace, Commander [[Józef Piłsudski]] | White eagle, Monument of the Heroic Deed of Polish Legions in Kielce. | Józef Piłsudski, [[electrotyping|electrotype]] denomination | 80,000 | November 3, 2008 |- | 20 zł | 138 × 69 mm | Orange, yellow, brown | [[Coat of arms of Poland|Polish coat of arms]], Chalet in [[Krzemieniec]], [[Juliusz Słowacki]] | Cranes, an excerpt of the poem ''Sedation'', Statue of [[Sigismund III Vasa]] at [[Castle Square, Warsaw|Castle Square]] in [[Warsaw]]. | Juliusz Słowacki, electrotype denomination | 80,000 | September 23, 2009 |- | 20 zł | 138 × 69 mm | Light blue, Light brown, black | [[Frédéric Chopin]], the mansion in [[Żelazowa Wola|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 × 69 mm | Brown and green | [[Marie Curie|Marie Skłodowska Curie]], Sorbona w Paryżu (Sorbonne school building in Paris), [[Coat of arms of Poland|Coat of arms]], Ra (atomic symbol for radium) in SPARK patch in concentric circles. | Quotation by Marie Skłodowska Curie ("I have detected the radium, but not created it; the glory does not belong to me, but it is the property of the whole mankind."), 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 |- | 20 zł | 147 × 67 mm | Green, brown, yellow and blue | Belvedere Palace hologram; coat of arms with crowned eagle; Commander [[Józef Piłsudski|Józef Klemens Piłsudski]] wearing military uniform. | Eagle badge of the Polish Legions; Grand Cross (with Star) of the Order of Virtuti Militari; badge of the First Brigade of the Polish Legions; Belvedere Palace hologram. | None | 50,000 | August 5, 2014 |- | 20 zł | 138 × 69 mm | Brown, green, gold and violet | 1415 as registration device; open book; [[Coat of arms of Poland|coat of arms with crowned eagle]]; [[Jan Długosz]] | [[Wieniawa coat of arms]]; Wawel cathedral in Kraków; stained glass window | Shield with crowned eagle | 30,000 | August 24, 2015 |- | 20 zł | 144 × 77 mm | Blue and red | [[Coat of arms of Poland|Coat of arms with crowned eagle]]; [[Doubravka of Bohemia|Dobrawa (Doubravka of Bohemia)]] and [[Mieszko I of Poland|King Miezko I]]; ornate cross; floor plan of church as registration device | Floor plan of church; Gniezno Cathedral; royal chalice of Trzemeszno | Unknown with electrotype 20 | 35,000 | April 12, 2016 |- | 20 zł | 150 × 77 mm | Blue | Crowns of the [[Black Madonna of Częstochowa]] | Drawing of Częstochowa in 1717, depicting the coronation event | Coat of arms of the Pauline Fathers | 55,000 | August 21, 2017 |- | 20 zł | 150 × 77 mm | | [[Józef Piłsudski|Józef Klemens Piłsudski]], Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta | [[Flag of Poland]], badge of the Polish Military Organization | | 50,000 | August 31, 2018 |- | 19 zł | 150 × 77 mm | | Ignacy Jan Paderewski and a stylized image of the Order of the White Eagle; word niepodległa (“independent”) | Current headquarters of the Polish Security Printing Works | | 55,000 | October 2, 2019 |- |20 zł |150 × 77 mm |Brown-green, blue |Eastern border landscape with helicopter |Officer and soldier of the [[Border Guard (Poland)|Border Guard]] | |80,000 |July 19, 2022 |- |}
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