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100 000 Drachmai Agricultural Treasury Bond, third issue
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΤΑΜΕΙΑΚΟΝ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΟΝ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΜΙΣΤΗΝ ΔΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΣΥΓΚΕΝΤΡΩΣΙΝ ΤΩΝ ΑΓΡΟΤΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΟΪΟΝΤΩΝ 100,000 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΣΕΙΡΑ Γ' ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ ΤΗ 15ῃ ΜΑΪΟΥ 1943 Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ ΟΙ ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΑΙ ΥΠΟΥΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΦΑΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ 11-5-1943 ΝΟΜΟΘΕΤΙΚΟΝ ΔΙΑΤΑΓΜΑ ΑΡ. 2164/18-2-1943 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green and relies on geometric guilloche work for its design, with no pictorial vignette. A central panel carries the large numeral 100,000 in white relief within an ornate cartouche, surrounded by an intricate lathe-work underprint of interlocking maze patterns. A continuous repeating text band reading ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ runs along all four outer borders, with rosette ornaments at the corners. |
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Greece's wartime occupation administrations required new financing instruments as the currency collapsed under Axis-enforced inflation. By mid-1943, the drachma had lost any credible store-of-value function, and the Agricultural Treasury Bonds were a fiscal mechanism layered on top of the conventional note-issuing structure — effectively state debt instruments circulating as money.
Third issue of the type. Pick 143 is frequently found with pinholes and handling folds consistent with administrative use rather than retail circulation — these passed through offices and ledger rooms, not market stalls.