2 grosze 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: 2, below it: GROSZE, over it an oak branch with two leaves hanging right

plain

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	34 400 000
1991	97 410 000
1992	157 000 003
1997	92 400 002
1998	154 840 050
1999	187 900 000
2000	94 500 000
2001	84 000 000
2002	83 910 000
2003	80 000 000
2004	100 000 000
2005	163 003 250
2006	105 000 000
2007	160 000 000
2008	172 000 000
2009	220 000 000
2010	120 000 000
2011	150 000 000
2012	100 000 000
2013	150 000 000
2014	20 000 000

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.