500 zloty 1940, series B and numbering starting with the digits: 20....., wide lower margin
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 sub-printing along with double overprinting of the series and numbering, the intaglio main printing is missing, 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 in issue condition, only with a feature in the form of a slight bend in the upper margin, exceptionally beautiful. Exposed in the private grading of the MKZG collector(with the possibility to pull the bill without cutting the slab), graded with the bill 66EPQ.
In this variant, a rare item on the collector 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
