A set of Bank Books with PKO voucher patterns from 1969 in the variant with red diagonal inscription "MODEL".
All exquisitely preserved, only in the case of dollar denominations with minor flaws within the upper right corner.
Total of 13 bills from 1 cent to $100. Full denomination set.
One of the best preserved PKO voucher specimen booklets to have graced our auctions.
At the end of the 1950s, a project was developed to create a nationwide network of stores where you could buy attractive goods for 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, with the highest denomination in each being $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.
