1 grosz POLAND (1990-2014)

in the centre crowned eagle - Coat of Arms; along the top edge: ♦ RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA ♦ (Republic of Poland); along the bottom edge year of issue

in the centre face value: 1, below it: GROSZ, over it an oak branch with one leaf hanging right

reeded

1 I 1995

circulating

Stanisława Wątróbska-Frindt, Ewa Tyc-Karpińska

Mennica Państwowa (The State Mint - the name until 1994);

Mennica Państwowa S.A. (The State Mint JSC - the name in years 1994-2005);

Mennica Polska S.A. (The Mint of Poland JSC - the name after 2005), Warsaw (mint mark on the obverse under eagle's left foot)

1990	29 140 000
1991	79 000 000
1992	362 000 000
1993	80 780 000
1995	102 280 109
1997	103 080 002
1998	270 640 003
1999	203 970 000
2000	210 100 000
2001	210 000 020
2002	240 000 000
2003	250 000 000
2004	300 000 000
2005	375 000 000
2006	184 000 000
2007	330 000 000
2008	316 000 000
2009	338 000 000
2010	150 000 000
2011	270 000 000
2012	365 000 000
2013	323 000 000
2014	86 000 000

The production of coins of this type in brass has become too expensive and in 2013 the National Bank of Poland announced a tender for the production of coins of this denomination in cheaper steel only coated with brass. The tender ended on October 31, 2013 and it appeared that The Royal Mint of Great Britain proposed the lowest price and won the contract for the supply of grosz coins from April 2014 to December 2016. The first coins of steel indeed appeared in circulation in March 2014 and are gradually replacing the brass coins, whose production ended.

The National Bank of Poland published mintage numbers of circulation coins only in January 2002, which was 12 years after minting the first coins and 7 years after putting them into circulation.