5 groszy 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

on the left face value: 5, on the right: GROSZY, below five oak leaves lying one on another

four plain sections and four 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	70 240 000
1991	171 040 000
1992	103 784 000
1993	20 280 101
1998	93 472 002
1999	99 024 000
2000	75 600 000
2001	67 368 000
2002	67 200 000
2003	48 000 000
2004	62 500 000
2005	113 000 000
2006	54 000 000
2007	116 000 000
2008	107 000 000
2009	160 000 000
2010	100 000 000
2011	90 000 000
2012	60 000 000
2013	88 000 000
2014	15 000 000

2011 - a) thick lettering in GROSZY in the reverse and the reverse picture small like in earlier years or b) thin lettering in GROSZY and the reverse picture larger like in later years

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.