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Aw. U góry widoczna część napisu pisanką: BILET SKARBOWY; niżej numer serii : D i napis:
Uchwała Rady Najwyższej Narod. Dnia 8 Czerw.1794
Niżej, centralnie na osi symbole wolności: czapka frygijska, uzbrojenie sankiulotów, baszty murów więziennych, łańcuchy absolutyzmu, gromy ludu i skrzydła wolności. Wyżej z lewej Orzeł, a z prawej strony Pogoń. Po bokach napis: Bilet – Skarbowy, a niżej w podwójnej prostokątnej ramce na ciemnym kreskowanym tle wartość nominału:
50 – PIĘĆDZIE/SIĄT
Pod spodem tekst uchwały:
Na Piędziesiąt Złotych polskich/: rachując z iedney / Grzywny Kolońskiej Złłch polch 84 1/2 Monety / Srebrnej:/ które Skarb Narodowy każdemu Uka= / zicielowi ninieyszego Biletu z funduszow / na umorzenie Biletów skarbowych prze= / znaczonych y na ogólnych Dobrach Na= / rodowych hypotekowanych zapłaci oraz / we wszelkich dochodach Publicznych we= / dług powyższey Uchwały Rady Naywyż= / szey Narodowey przyimować będzie
Pod tekstem uchwały znaki zabezpieczające, pośrodku centralnie obłamany stempel suchej pieczęci Dyrekcji Biletów Skarbowych z poziomą inskrypcją: WOLNOŚĆ / CAŁOŚĆ / NIEPODLE / GŁOŚĆ i napisem otokowym: * PIECZĘĆ DYREKCYI BILETÓ[W]. Po bokach litery B – S, wybarwiane chemicznie. Niżej odręczne podpisy komisarzy wybranych spośród mieszczan warszawskich: J. (Jan) Klek, J. (Jan Klemens) Gaczkowski i numer w owalnej ramce: 19320.

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Treasury ticket - 50 Polish zlotys

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Measures:	Height: 96 mm, Width: 181 mm
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Inventory number:	N/Bn/575/ML
Location:	The National Museum in Lublin (Lublin Castle), ul. Zamkowa 9, Lublin

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The main reason for the introduction of paper money by the Kościuszko Uprising authorities was the lack of bullion needed to mint coins. Thus, the introduction of insurrectionary treasury tickets into circulation was not the realisation of a carefully planned undertaking, but only a kind of ad hoc remedy. What is more, the insurgent authorities assumed that the paper money would only temporarily replace the bullion coin. It was expressed in assurances addressed to the public that, after the end of the uprising, tickets would be exchanged for coins in a ratio of 1:1. Such an approach to the matter meant that paper money was not popular. The lack of trust was further exacerbated by an ill-considered decision of the Uprising authorities, which allowed only half of the financial obligations towards the treasury to be paid in treasury tickets. The remaining part was to be paid in coin. Even the repeal of that decision did little to change public attitudes. During the Kościuszko Uprising, treasury tickets were put into circulation in three issues. The first of them included originally planned tickets with the face values of 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 zlotys. The issue was planned to have a total value of 60 million zloty at that time. The relevant decision was taken on 8 June 1794, and the tickets went into circulation on 16 August that year. Three days earlier a second issue was decided, comprising tickets of 5 and 10 groszy, as well as 1 zloty. It was to include tickets worth a total of 6 million zloty. It was implemented in three stages: from 10 October for the 5-grosz tickets, from 20 October for 20-grosz and from 1 November for 1 zloty. The decision about the third issue, planned for 8 million zlotys and involving only four-zloty tickets, was made, although – paradoxically – they went into circulation on 27 September 1794, i.e., earlier than the tickets of the second issue. However, the range of the issue was limited, as the four-zloty tickets went exclusively to the inhabitants of Warsaw. In total, an issue worth as much as 74 million zloty was planned, but ultimately fewer than 2.4 million tickets of various denominations, worth less than 11 million zloty, went into circulation.Leszek Poniewozik