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10 000 Drachmai no date, large size, 5 coins at bottom
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Second modern drachma (1944-1953) |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio print on a light guilloche underprint. At centre stands a full-length classical female figure in traditional Greek dress, rendered in a statuesque, neoclassical style. A large blank circular guilloche medallion appears at left, while at right a decorative circular frame encloses the denomination inscription. Agricultural and pastoral vignettes, including ox-drawn ploughs and horse-drawn carts, run along the lower margin. The Bank of Greece title is inscribed across the top, with the denomination numeral at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΔΕΚΑ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΠΡΩΤΗ 10.000 |
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By the time this note was authorized in 1945, Greece had already survived Nazi occupation, a catastrophic famine that killed an estimated 100,000 people in Athens alone during the winter of 1941–42, and a hyperinflationary collapse so severe that the November 1944 currency reform wiped out eleven zeros — exchanging 50 billion old drachmai for a single new one. This 10,000-drachmai issue belongs to the transitional period immediately after that reform, when the restored Bank of Greece was rebuilding its note stock through ABNC in New York rather than through any domestic facility.
The five-coin device at the bottom was used to distinguish this printing from related issues in the same high-denomination series.