A very nicely preserved piece of 1939 one-penny coin.
A coin with the date 1939, but introduced into circulation only in 1941, which is confirmed by the preserved documents and which we are also informed about in his "Specialized catalog of Polish coins of the 20th and 21st centuries." Mr. Jerzy Chalupski, writing as follows: "Coins with a face value of 1 grosz 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.
