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10 000 Drachmes
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Ioannis Pipinis Reverse: Eleonora Perraki-Pipinis |
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| Obverse description | Purple and violet intaglio on multicolour guilloche underprint. A portrait vignette of Dr. Georgios Papanikolaou (1883–1962) is centred on the face, flanked to the right by a microscope and a book, with the denomination numeral 10000 repeated in the corners. The note bears the date 16 January 1995 and carries two facsimile signatures below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Purple and violet intaglio on multicolour guilloche underprint. A classical frieze illustrating a medical care scene occupies the centre of the reverse, while a statue of Asclepius, the ancient Greek god of medicine, stands at right. The denomination 10000 appears in each corner, complemented by fine geometric latticework across the field. |
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By 1995, Greek inflation had been running at double digits for over a decade, and the 10,000 drachma note — worth roughly 40 US dollars at issue — was thoroughly ordinary tender for everyday transactions. The denomination that would have seemed extraordinary in the 1970s had become the functional equivalent of a mid-range banknote in any stable currency.
Printed entirely in-house by the Bank of Greece's own facility at Holargos, this is one of the later drachma issues before the currency's absorption into the euro in 2001 and the end of physical drachma circulation in 2002. The engraving is a family collaboration of sorts — Ioannis Pipinis handled the obverse while Eleonora Perraki-Pipinis worked the reverse.