10 000 Drachmes

Issuer Greece
Year 1995
Type Standard circulation banknote
Value 10 000 Drachmai (10 000 GRD)
Currency Third modern drachma (1954-2001)
Composition Paper
Size 153 × 77 mm
Shape Rectangular
Printer Banknote and Currency Printing Office (Ίδρυμα Εκτυπώσεως Τραπεζογραμματίων και Αξιών / Idryma Ektiposeos Trapezogrammation kai Axion), Holargos, Greece (1947-date)
Designer(s) Obverse: Pericles Sotiriou
Reverse: Nikos Nikolaou
Engraver(s) Obverse: Ioannis Pipinis
Reverse: Eleonora Perraki-Pipinis
In circulation to 1 March 2012
Reference(s) P#206
Obverse description Purple and violet on multicolour underprint. Portrait of Dr. Georgios Papanikolaou at centre, with microscope and book to right.
Obverse lettering 10000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΔΕΚΑ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΕΣ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΑΘΗΝΑ 16 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ 1995 Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ 10000 10000 ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΠΑΠΑΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ 1883 - 1962 10000
(Translation: Bank of Greece, Ten thousand drachmes, Paid on appearance, Athens, 16 January 1995)
Reverse description Purple and violet on multicolour underprint. Frieze depicting a medical care scene at centre, with a statue of Asclepius at right.
Reverse lettering 10000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 10000 10000 ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΔΕΚΑ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΣ
(Translation: Bank of Greece, Ten Thousand Drachmes, Asclepius)
Signature(s)
Protection type Watermark
Protection description Philip II of Macedon.
Variants
Numisquare ID 9916581250
Comments
×