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10 000 Drachmai no date, small size, 3 coins at bottom
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Size | 150 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Aristotle at left, with the denomination at centre in bold letterpress. Ancient Greek coins are arranged along the lower border, and a blank watermark panel appears at right. The design incorporates guilloche underprint work framing the central field. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Charioteer of Delphi, the full-length bronze statue rendered in intaglio, superimposed over an ancient frieze relief illustrating a chariot race. The denomination appears on both sides of the central design, framed by fine guilloche borders. |
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Greece's postwar inflation was staggering — by the time this note was issued in 1947, the country had already executed a 1,000-to-1 redenomination in 1944 to address the catastrophic wartime hyperinflation that had rendered earlier drachmai essentially worthless. This 10,000-drachmai denomination, enormous by prewar standards, was itself a routine transactional amount within months of issue. Bradbury Wilkinson had a long relationship with the Bank of Greece and produced several of the postwar recovery series from their New Malden works.
The undated format was deliberate — the series was intended for extended use across an uncertain recovery period, with the issuing date managed through control numbers rather than printed text.