500 zloty 1940, series B and numbering starting with the digits: 20.....
This is a fragment cut from a printing sheet, in printing terminology such type is called "waste paper". In this case involving unfinished printing of the obverse - only there are two layers of subprinting along with double printing of the series and numbering, there is no intaglio main printing, while the reverse has printing fully completed, as for a banknote in finished form.
This is so far the only instance of the occurrence on the 500 zloty 1940 Series B, of numbering starting with the numeral "2". The 500 zloty Series B denomination , printing fully completed, is not known in such a variant, the numbering goes up to 19XXXXX.
An attractive piece confirmed by a high note in PMG,(nowadays numerical notes, for this type of currency are not granted in PMG).
In this variant, a rare item on the collector's market. Nowadays, due to the ever-increasing interest in this type of currency from collectors, bills of this type have become sought-after objects for collections.
Literature: as Miłczak 98
