Which currency is Poland’s official monetary unit?

Poland’s official monetary unit is the Polish złoty. Its ISO 4217 code is PLN, and one złoty is divided into 100 groszy. The Polish word złoty means “golden,” a name connected with historical gold coins.

The modern złoty was introduced in 1924 during a monetary reform that followed severe inflation in the newly independent Second Polish Republic. It replaced the Polish mark and helped establish a unified currency after Poland had previously been divided among empires with different monetary systems.

Poland has used several versions of the złoty during periods of war, occupation, and economic change. The present currency was introduced after the communist period, with a redenomination on 1 January 1995 that removed four zeros from the old złoty.

The grosz is the złoty’s fractional unit. Although “złoty” is often written without its diacritic in English-language text, the official Polish spelling uses the letter ł.