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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 717069, member: 39&quot;]Don&#039;t collect paper money myself, but that is a 1000 mark note from Poland - &quot;Tysiąc Marek Polskich&quot; means a thousand Polish marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>After WW1 Poland first continued to use the Mark/Pfennig currency that was introduced during that war. &quot;Polska Krajowa Kasa Pożyczkowa&quot; (Polish National Loan Office) is the central bank, so to say, that issued these notes. They were legal tender in the first years of the republic. In 1924, after a high inflation period, the Polish Mark was replaced by the Złoty. Here <a href="http://www.nbp.pl/homen.aspx?f=/en/onbp/informacje/historia_bankowosci.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nbp.pl/homen.aspx?f=/en/onbp/informacje/historia_bankowosci.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nbp.pl/homen.aspx?f=/en/onbp/informacje/historia_bankowosci.html</a> is more (in English) about the economic background ...</p><p><br /></p><p>PS - Also see here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_marka" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_marka" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_marka</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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