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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 8381145, member: 102103&quot;]Speaking of ones to learn from, this one puzzled me:</p><p>Poland <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces39035.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces39035.html" rel="nofollow">50 Groszy 1938</a> (I think iron version as opposed to nickel-plated iron)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1487463[/ATTACH] </p><p>The Numista page indicates they were issued under the German occupation.</p><p>According to <a href="https://pl-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/50_groszy_1938?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://pl-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/50_groszy_1938?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp" rel="nofollow">Polish Wikipedia</a> (through Google translate), these were issued in August, 1939, which would be about a month before the German invasion.&nbsp; It continued to be issued under the Nazi occupation until 1942, when it was demonetized due to rampant counterfeiting.&nbsp; Not sure why Poland and then Germany issued a coin from 1939-1942 with a 1938 date.&nbsp; Apparently the Germans had trouble getting hold of dies for some Polish coins, so they just used whatever dates they had available even if they were several years past.&nbsp; But that doesn&#039;t explain why Poland used the 1938 date, or why the coin wasn&#039;t released until 1939. Even in 1939 Poland expected war imminently, so maybe they had bigger things on their minds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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