Difficult to acquire in nice states of preservation, high denomination Pewex commodity bill.
The banknote bears a PMG certificate with a PMG grade of 58 EPQ.
A natural piece, as evidenced by the EPQ addition from PMG.
An item of album-like, even exemplary presentation.
At the end of the 1950s, a project was developed to create a nationwide network of stores where attractive goods could be purchased with foreign currencies. The economy of "People's Poland" needed foreign currency and in order to keep it, it was decided to introduce substitute means of payment. These were commodity vouchers based on the U.S. dollar. People who received money transfers from abroad in foreign currency could not withdraw it in real banknotes, but only in the form of commodity vouchers. These substitute means of payment could be used to pay at Pewex stores (buying goods), Lokum (buying an apartment) or Polmot (buying a car). Goods vouchers entitled people to buy scarce goods out of line. Pekao vouchers were also issued at the National Bank of Poland. Merchandise vouchers lived to see three issues - 1960, 1969 and 1979, each with the highest denomination of $100. They were printed with simple ornamental decoration limited to guilloches and denomination information. Commodity vouchers circulated in domestic circulation as the second "better" currency from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1990.
