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100 Drachmai
| Issuer | Ionian Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1903-1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | IONIAN BANK LIMITED ΙΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ LIMITED ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΕΚΑΤΟΝ 100 Η Αποτίεται επί τη εμφανίσει Εν Κερκύρᾳ τήν ό Διευθυντής άντ επίτροπος ό Λογιστής |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE IONIENNE LIMITED 100 FRANCS |
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The Ionian Bank was a British-chartered institution founded in 1839, originally serving the then-British protectorate of the Ionian Islands. By the time this note was issued, the islands had long since unified with Greece — 1864 — but the bank retained its right of private note issue in Greece, one of several such privileges it held under successive arrangements with the Greek government. That anomaly of a British bank circulating currency on Greek soil persisted well into the twentieth century.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch produced work of consistently high intaglio quality, and their plates for the Ionian Bank series were among the more technically accomplished private-issue printings of the period.