Mint piece of the 1939 single-penny pattern.
Exquisite presentation.
Second highest grade in the PCGS registry and only one piece graded higher.
Coin dated 1939, but not introduced into circulation until 1941, which is confirmed by surviving documents and also reported in his "Specialized Catalogue of Polish Coins of the 20th and 21st Centuries." Mr. Jerzy Chalupski, writing as follows: "Coins with a face value of 1 penny were introduced into circulation on December 17, 1941 Verordnungsblatt des Generalgouverneurs für die Besetzten Polnischen Gebiete = Journal of Regulations of the General Governor for the Occupied Polish Areas. No. 120 of 24.12.1941 p. 726. The ordinance was implemented according to its letter. Most of the one-penny coins are very well preserved and bear slight traces of circulation. The reason, of course, was inflation. If one takes the level of food prices in 1940 as a base, then already in the following year prices rose almost 2.5 times. The ratios for the following years were 4.5 7.5 and 1.03 respectively. Nevertheless, one-penny bills were still being beaten in 1944."
Above the pawns are the initials WJ, Wojciech Jastrzebski, the author of the project.
